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Leviticus 23:43

in Leviticus 23

so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

KJV

That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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This verse in Leviticus 23

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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.

This site's exposition

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days

on Leviticus 23:42-44

This is the one appointed time in the chapter whose reason the text states outright, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. A settled nation with houses is ordered out of them for a week every year so that its children will ask why. The chapter that is almost entirely God speaking ends with a man speaking, since verse 44 has Moses declaring the feasts of the LORD to the people who will keep them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And they would the more sensibly value and be thankful for the comforts and conveniences of their houses when they had been seven days dwelling in booths. It is good for those that have ease and plenty sometimes to learn what it is to endure hardness. (2.) It was a feast of in-gathering, so it is called, Exod. xxiii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

That your generations may know, etc. - By the institution of this feast God had two great objects in view: 1. To perpetuate the wonderful display of his providence and grace in bringing them out of Egypt, and in preserving them in the wilderness. 2. To excite and maintain in them a spirit of gratitude and obedience, by leading them to consider deeply the greatness of the favors which they had received from his most merciful hands. Signal displays of the mercy, kindness, and providential care of God should be particularly remembered.

How the passage was read

On Leviticus 23:1-44

On 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

16 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • לְמַעַן֮so that

    lemaanH4616 →272 times

  • יֵדְע֣וּ<they> may know

    yedeuH3045 →945 times

  • דֹרֹֽתֵיכֶם֒generations your

    doroteikhemH1755 →167 times

  • כִּ֣יthat

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בַסֻּכּ֗וֹתin <the> booths

    vasukotH5521 →31 times

  • הוֹשַׁ֙בְתִּי֙I caused to dwell

    hoshavtiH3427 →1079 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • בְּהוֹצִיאִ֥יwhen brought out I

    behotziiH3318 →1067 times

  • אוֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • מֵאֶ֣רֶץfrom [the] land of

    meeretzH776 →2504 times

  • מִצְרָ֑יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • אֲנִ֖יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • יְהוָ֥ה[am] Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃God your

    ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    Exodus 13:14

    In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 4:6

      to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

    • Exodus 13:3

      So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His…

    • Psalms 145:4

      One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—

    • Deuteronomy 6:20–24

      In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

    • Exodus 12:26–27

      When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 23 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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