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Leviticus 23:41

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You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And ye shall keep it a feast unto Jehovah seven days in the year: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month.

KJV

And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

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This verse in Leviticus 23

Commentary

4 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

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month

on Leviticus 23:39-41

At verse 40 the people are told to rejoice before the LORD their God seven days. The word rejoice occurs once in the whole of Leviticus, in a book otherwise given to blood, quarantine and penalties.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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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And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year,.... Every year it was to be kept for the space of seven days, beginning on the fifteenth and ending on the twenty second of the month Tisri or September: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations; until the Messiah should come and tabernacle among men, the substance of this shadow, on whose coming it was to flee away: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month; which is repeated for the confirmation of it, and that no mistake might be made.

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

14 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.

  • וְחַגֹּתֶ֤םand you will celebrate a festival

    vechagotemH2287 →16 times

  • אֹתוֹ֙<obj.> it

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • חַ֣גa festival

    chagH2282 →62 times

  • לַֽיהוָ֔הof Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֥תseven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • יָמִ֖יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • בַּשָּׁנָ֑הin the year

    bashanahH8141 →877 times

  • חֻקַּ֤תa statute of

    chukatH2708 →104 times

  • עוֹלָם֙perpetuity

    olamH5769 →438 times

  • לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םto generations your

    ledoroteikhemH1755 →167 times

  • בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁin the month

    bachodeshH2320 →284 times

  • הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י<the> seventh

    hasheviiH7637 →98 times

  • תָּחֹ֥גּוּyou will celebrate as a festival

    tachoguH2287 →16 times

  • אֹתֽוֹ׃<obj.> it

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 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

    Nehemiah 8:18

    Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 29:35

      On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

    • Leviticus 23:36

      For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to…

    • Deuteronomy 31:10–13

      Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,

  • Through

    Numbers 29:12

    On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 16:13–14

      You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.

    • Nehemiah 8:14

      And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.

    • Hebrews 11:9–13

      By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

    • Ezekiel 45:25

      During the seven days of the feast that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.’

    • Exodus 34:22

      And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. 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) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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