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ZEC 14:16-19
Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. (niv)
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LEV 23:34-43
“ Say to the Israelites:‘ On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work.For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the Lord. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.(“‘ These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the Lord— the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day.These offerings are in addition to those for the Lord’s Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the Lord.)“‘ So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the Lord for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest.On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees— from palms, willows and other leafy trees— and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native- born Israelites are to live in such sheltersso your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’” (niv)
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NUM 29:12-38
“‘ On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days.Present as an aroma pleasing to the Lord a food offering consisting of a burnt offering of thirteen young bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.With each of the thirteen bulls offer a grain offering of three- tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with each of the two rams, two- tenths;and with each of the fourteen lambs, one-tenth.Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.“‘ On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.“‘ On the third day offer eleven bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.“‘ On the fourth day offer ten bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.“‘ On the fifth day offer nine bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.“‘ On the sixth day offer eight bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.“‘ On the seventh day offer seven bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.“‘ On the eighth day hold a closing special assembly and do no regular work.Present as an aroma pleasing to the Lord a food offering consisting of a burnt offering of one bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect.With the bull, the ram and the lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering. (niv)
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EXO 23:16-17
“ Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.“ Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.“ Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord. (niv)
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DEU 16:13-16
Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.Be joyful at your festival— you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: (niv)
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NEH 8:14-18
They found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh monthand that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem:“ Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters”— as it is written.So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim.The whole company that had returned from exile built temporary shelters and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this. And their joy was very great.Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation, there was an assembly. (niv)
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2CH 7:9-10
On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the Lord had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel. (niv)
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EZR 3:4
Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day. (niv)
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1KI 8:65
So Solomon observed the festival at that time, and all Israel with him— a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. They celebrated it before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days more, fourteen days in all. (niv)
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1KI 8:2
All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month. (niv)
