Leviticus 23:34Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles, seven days to the Lord.
Douay-Rheims

דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה עָשָׂ֜ר י֗וֹם לַחֹ֤דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי֙ הַזֶּ֔ה חַ֧ג הַסֻּכּ֛וֹת שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים לַיהֹוָֽה׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

The Feast of Tabernacles served as a remembrance of their journey through the wilderness. The Lawgiver proclaimed, "As in the tabernacles I have gathered the children of Israel, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt" (Lev. 23:43).

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

John 7:2Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Neh 8:14And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in tabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:
Num 29:12And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be unto you holy and venerable, you shall do no servile work, but shall celebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days.
Ezra 3:4And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment, the duty of the day in its day.
Ex 34:22Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the corn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year returneth that all things are laid in.
Zech 14:16And all they that shall be left of all nations that came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zech 14:19This shall be the sin of Egypt, and this the sin of all nations, that will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Ex 23:16And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field.