You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.
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You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.
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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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And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 23:41 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 29:12 “ ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.
- Nehemiah 8:18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And ye shall keep it a feast unto the…
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:
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ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month; which is repeated for the confirmation of it, and that no mistake might be made.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (41) Seven days in the year.—These seven days denote…
(41) Seven days in the year.—These seven days denote the feast of Tabernacles proper, whilst the eight days in Lev_23:39 include the concluding festival of the last day. (See Lev_23:36.)
In your generations.—Better, throughout your generations, as the Authorised version renders it in Lev_23:14; Lev_23:21; Lev_23:31 of this very chapter. (See Lev_3:17.)
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.