¹⁶ You shall also keep the feast of the grain harvest with the first fruits of the crop that you sow in the field; and finally, the feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you collect your produce from the fields.

³⁴ Tell the Israelites: The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Lord’s feast of Booths,^[a](A) which shall continue for seven days.

On the Feast of Booths. ^12 [a]On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will declare a holy day:^(A) you shall do no heavy work. For the following seven days you will celebrate a pilgrimage feast to the Lord.

Feast of Booths. ^13 (A)You shall celebrate the feast of Booths^[a] for seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and wine press. ¹⁴ You shall rejoice at your feast,^(B) together with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and also the Levite, the resident alien, the orphan and the widow within your gates. ¹⁵ For seven days you shall celebrate this feast for the Lord, your God, in the place which the Lord will choose; since the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your crops and in all your undertakings, you will be full of joy.

¹⁶ Three times a year,^(C) then, all your males shall appear before the Lord, your God, in the place which he will choose: at the feast of Unleavened Bread, at the feast of Weeks, and at the feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed,

The Future: Jerusalem, Judah, and the Nations. ¹⁶ Everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to bow down to the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the feast of Booths.^{[a](A) 17} Should any of the families of the earth^(B) not go up to Jerusalem to bow down to the King, the Lord of hosts, then there will be no rain for them. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, upon them will fall the plague,^(C) with which the Lord strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the feast of Booths. ¹⁹ This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the feast of Booths.