34 “Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Shelters[a](A) to the Lord begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.

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  1. 23:34 Or Tabernacles, or Booths

34 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh(A) month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles(B) begins, and it lasts for seven days.

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The Festival of Shelters

13 “You are to celebrate the Festival of Shelters(A) for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress.(B) 14 Rejoice during your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates. 15 You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place he chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands,(C) and you will have abundant joy.

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The Festival of Tabernacles(A)

13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor(B) and your winepress.(C) 14 Be joyful(D) 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. 15 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(E) will be complete.

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65 Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath[a](A) to the Brook of Egypt(B)—observed the festival at that time(C) in the presence of the Lord our God, seven days, and seven more days—fourteen days.[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:65 Or from Lebo-hamath
  2. 8:65 Temple dedication lasted seven days, and the Festival of Shelters lasted seven days.

65 So Solomon observed the festival(A) at that time, and all Israel with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath(B) to the Wadi of Egypt.(C) They celebrated it before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days more, fourteen days in all.

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