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Feast of Tabernacles

This feast began on 15th Tishri (September/October) and lasted seven days. It celebrated the first gathering of the fruit and grain harvests and also God's provision for his people during their wilderness journey from Egypt to the promised land.

Instructions for celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles

Exodus 23:16 See also Exodus 23:14, Exodus 34:22–23; Leviticus 23:33–34, Leviticus 23:39; Numbers 29:12; Deuteronomy 16:13, Deuteronomy 16:14, Deuteronomy 16:16

You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

People lived in booths for the duration of the Feast of Tabernacles

Leviticus 23:40, Leviticus 23:42–43

The offerings to be made on each day of the Feast of Tabernacles

Leviticus 23:37; Numbers 29:13–38

The Feast of Tabernacles was celebrated throughout Israel's history

2 Chronicles 8:12–13 under Solomon; Ezra 3:4; Nehemiah 8:17–18; John 7:2–3, John 7:37–38

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Dictionary of Bible Themes © 1999 Martin Manser, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, via Bible Aquifer. Formatted for this site, with Scripture from the Berean Standard Bible.

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