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Leviticus 23:40

You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.

  • KJV King James Version

    And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

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Cross-references (13)

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  • Revelation 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
  • Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
  • Deuteronomy 16:14-15 You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
  • Matthew 21:8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.
  • Nehemiah 8:14-17 They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month; and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters, as it is written.” So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate. All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters, and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.
  • Isaiah 35:10 Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
  • John 12:13 they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”
  • John 16:22 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
  • Romans 5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
  • Psalms 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
  • 1 Peter 1:8 whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
  • Isaiah 66:10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, of boughs thick with leaves.

Or, of boughs thick with leaves.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Boughs, Heb. the fruit, i.e. fruit-bearing boughs, or branches…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And ye shall take you the boughs of goodly…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Of goodly trees - Namely, olive, myrtle and pine,…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 40. Boughs of goodly trees] The Jews and…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 23:40. Of goodly trees — Namely, olive, myrtle,…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The boughs of goodly trees - Or, the fruit…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Fairest tree, branches of the orange or citron tree,…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 40. The boughs of goodly trees — Here the…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 40. fruit of goodly trees] i.e. fruit of goodly…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (40) And ye shall take you on the first…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 40-43. The Feast of Tabernacles.
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