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Deuteronomy 16:16
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14 And ayou shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your1 gates.  
15 aSeven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.  
16 a“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and bthey shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.  
17 Every man shall give as he is able, aaccording to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.  

Justice Must Be Administered

18 “You shall appoint ajudges and officers in all your1 gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.  
19 aYou shall not pervert justice; byou shall not show partiality, cnor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and2 twists the words of the righteous.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Deuteronomy 16:13-17

Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days—(See on Exodus 23:14; Leviticus 23:34; Numbers 29:12). Various conjectures have been formed to account for the appointment of this feast at the conclusion of the whole harvest. Some imagine that it was designed to remind the Israelites of the time when they had no cornfields to reap but were daily supplied with manna; others think that it suited the convenience of the people better than any other period of the year for dwelling in booths; others that it was the time of Moses' second descent from the mount; while a fourth class are of opinion that this feast was fixed to the time of the year when the Word was made flesh and dwelt—literally, "tabernacled"—among us (John 1:14), Christ being actually born at that season.


 
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