Leviticus 23:39

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37 ^a‘These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day—

38 ^abesides the Sabbaths of the Lord, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the Lord.

39 ‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have ^agathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

40 And ^ayou shall take for yourselves on the first day the¹ fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; ^band you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

41 ^aYou shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

42 ^aYou shall dwell in booths for seven days. ^bAll who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

43 ^athat your generations may ^bknow that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when ^cI brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.’ ”

44 So Moses ^adeclared to the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.

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John Wesley's Notes

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Leviticus 23:39

This is no addition of a new, but only a repetition of the former injunction, with a more particular explication both of the manner and reason of the feast. The fruit - Not the corn, which was gathered long before, but that of the trees, as vines, olives, and other fruit - trees: which compleated the harvest, whence this is called the feast of in - gathering.

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