Leviticus 23:42
in Leviticus 23You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,
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ASV
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths;
KJV
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Booths - According to Jewish tradition, what were used at the Feast of Tabernacles were strictly “tabernacula,” structures of boards, with a covering of boughs. The “booth” in which the Israelite kept the Feast, and the “tent” which was his ordinary abode in the wilderness, had this in common - they were temporary places of sojourn, they belonged to camp-life. The seven days of abode in the booths of the festival was thus a fair symbol of the forty years of abode in tents in the wilderness.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
13 ), and is alluded to, Rev. vii. The eighth day some make a distinct feast of itself, but it is called ( John vii. 37 ) that great day of the feast; it was the day on which they returned from their booths, to settle again in their own houses.
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Ye shall dwell in booths seven days,.... So that it seems they were not obliged to dwell in them on the eighth day, which was an holy convocation, a sabbath in which no servile work was to be done as the first, Lev 23:
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
While the solid branches were reserved for the construction of the booths, the lighter branches were carried by men, who marched in triumphal procession, singing psalms and crying "Hosanna!" which signifies, "Save, we beseech thee!" (Ps 118:15, 25, 26). It was a season of great rejoicing.
How the passage was read
On Leviticus 23:1-44On Leviticus 23:1-44
The year Israel keeps
This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.
So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בַּסֻּכֹּ֥ת | basukot | in <the> booths | H5521 → | 31 times |
| תֵּשְׁב֖וּ | teshevu | you will dwell | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| שִׁבְעַ֣ת | shivat | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| יָמִ֑ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הָֽאֶזְרָח֙ | haezrach | <the> native-born | H249 → | 17 times |
| בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | beyisrael | in Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| יֵשְׁב֖וּ | yeshevu | they will dwell | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| בַּסֻּכֹּֽת׃ | basukot | in <the> booths | H5521 → | 31 times |
בַּסֻּכֹּ֥תin <the> booths
basukotH5521 →31 times
תֵּשְׁב֖וּyou will dwell
teshevuH3427 →1079 times
שִׁבְעַ֣תseven
shivatH7651 →394 times
יָמִ֑יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
כָּל־every
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הָֽאֶזְרָח֙<the> native-born
haezrachH249 →17 times
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לin Israel
beyisraelH3478 →2507 times
יֵשְׁב֖וּthey will dwell
yeshevuH3427 →1079 times
בַּסֻּכֹּֽת׃in <the> booths
basukotH5521 →31 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 24:2When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 19:20
he sent messengers to capture him. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel leading them, the Spirit of God came upon them, and Saul’s messengers also began to prophesy.
- 2 Chronicles 15:1
Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded.
- 1 Samuel 19:23
So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. But the Spirit of God came upon even Saul, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
- 1 Samuel 10:10
When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Then the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied along with them.
- Numbers 2:2–34
“The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.
- 1 Samuel 19:20
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.