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Leviticus 23:42
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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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Leviticus 23:42

Booths - According to Jewish tradition, what were used at the Feast of Tabernacles were strictly "tabernacula," structures of boards, with a covering of boughs.

The "booth" in which the Israelite kept the Feast, and the "tent" which was his ordinary abode in the wilderness, had this in common - they were temporary places of sojourn, they belonged to camp-life. The seven days of abode in the booths of the festival was thus a fair symbol of the forty years of abode in tents in the wilderness. The Feast might well become the appointed memorial of this period of their history for the ages to come.

All that are Israelites born - The omission of the foreigners in this command is remarkable. Perhaps the intention was that on this joyous occasion they were to be hospitably entertained as guests. Compare Deuteronomy 16:14.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Leviticus 23:42:

Exodus 23:14-17
Leviticus 23:40
1 Kings 20:12
Haggai 2:1
Zechariah 14:16
John 7:2

 

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