Bible Cross References
Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Exodus 23:16
"Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops. "Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards.
Exodus 23:17
Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.
Leviticus 23:34-43
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On the first of these days come together for worship and do none of your daily work.
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Each day for seven days you shall present a food offering. On the eighth day come together again for worship and present a food offering. It is a day for worship, and you shall do no work.
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(These are the religious festivals on which you honor the LORD by gathering together for worship and presenting food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and wine offerings, as required day by day.
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These festivals are in addition to the regular Sabbaths, and these offerings are in addition to your regular gifts, your offerings as fulfillment of vows, and your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.)
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When you have harvested your fields, celebrate this festival for seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The first day shall be a special day of rest.
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On that day take some of the best fruit from your trees, take palm branches and limbs from leafy trees, and begin a religious festival to honor the LORD your God.
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Celebrate it for seven days. This regulation is to be kept by your descendants for all time to come.
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All the people of Israel shall live in shelters for seven days,
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so that your descendants may know that the LORD made the people of Israel live in simple shelters when he led them out of Egypt. He is the LORD your God.
Numbers 29:12-38
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Gather for worship on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Celebrate this festival in honor of the LORD for seven days and do no work.
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On this first day offer a food offering to the LORD, an odor pleasing to him: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with each bull, 4 pounds with each ram,
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and 2 pounds with each lamb, with the required wine offerings.
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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. Offer these in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.
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On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
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On the third day offer eleven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
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On the fourth day offer ten young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
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On the fifth day offer nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
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On the sixth day offer eight young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
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On the seventh day offer seven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
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On the eighth day gather for worship and do no work.
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Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the LORD, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
Deuteronomy 16:13-16
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"After you have threshed all your grain and pressed all your grapes, celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days.
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Enjoy it with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns.
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Honor the LORD your God by celebrating this festival for seven days at the one place of worship. Be joyful, because the LORD has blessed your harvest and your work.
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"All the men of your nation are to come to worship the LORD three times a year at the one place of worship: at Passover, Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Shelters. Each man is to bring a gift
1 Kings 8:2
They all assembled during the Festival of Shelters in the seventh month, in the month of Ethanim.
1 Kings 8:65
There at the Temple, Solomon and all the people of Israel celebrated the Festival of Shelters for seven days. There was a huge crowd of people from as far away as Hamath Pass in the north and the Egyptian border in the south.
2 Chronicles 7:9
They had spent seven days for the dedication of the altar and then seven more days for the festival. On the last day they had a closing celebration,
2 Chronicles 7:10
and on the following day, the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people home. They were happy about all the blessings that the LORD had given to his people Israel, to David, and to Solomon.
Ezra 3:4
They celebrated the Festival of Shelters according to the regulations; each day they offered the sacrifices required for that day;
Nehemiah 8:14-18
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They discovered that the Law, which the LORD gave through Moses, ordered the people of Israel to live in temporary shelters during the Festival of Shelters.
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So they gave the following instructions and sent them all through Jerusalem and the other cities and towns: "Go out to the hills and get branches from pines, olives, myrtles, palms, and other trees to make shelters according to the instructions written in the Law."
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So the people got branches and built shelters on the flat roofs of their houses, in their yards, in the Temple courtyard, and in the public squares by the Water Gate and by the Ephraim Gate.
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All the people who had come back from captivity built shelters and lived in them. This was the first time it had been done since the days of Joshua son of Nun, and everybody was excited and happy.
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From the first day of the festival to the last they read a part of God's Law every day. They celebrated for seven days, and on the eighth day there was a closing ceremony, as required in the Law.
Zechariah 14:16-19
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Then all of the survivors from the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go there each year to worship the LORD Almighty as king and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
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If any nation refuses to go and worship the LORD Almighty as king, then rain will not fall on their land.
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If the Egyptians refuse to celebrate the Festival of Shelters, then they will be struck by the same disease that the LORD will send on every nation that refuses to go.
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This will be the punishment that will fall on Egypt and on all the other nations if they do not celebrate the Festival of Shelters.