Leviticus 23:40

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Pick the best fruit from your trees and cut leafy branches to use during the time of this joyous celebration in my honour.

Cross References

Psalm 137:2

We hung our small harps on the willow trees.

Psalm 92:12

Good people will prosper like palm trees, and they will grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

Isaiah 35:10

The people the LORD has rescued will come back singing as they enter Zion. Happiness will be a crown they will always wear. They will celebrate and shout because all sorrows and worries will be gone far away.

Isaiah 44:4

They will spring up like grass or like willow trees near flowing streams.

Isaiah 66:10

If you love Jerusalem, celebrate and shout! If you were in sorrow because of the city, you can now be glad.

Leviticus 23:39

Remember to begin the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the seventh month after you have harvested your crops. Celebrate this festival for seven days in honour of me and don't do any work on the first day or on the day following the festival.

Leviticus 23:41

I command you and all your descendants to celebrate this festival during the seventh month of each year.

Matthew 21:8

Many people spread clothes in the road, while others put down branches which they had cut from trees.

John 12:13

they took palm branches and went out to greet him. They shouted, “Hooray! God bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord! God bless the King of Israel!”

John 16:22

You are now very sad. But later I will see you, and you will be so happy that no one will be able to change the way you feel.

Romans 5:11

And in addition to everything else, we are happy because God sent our Lord Jesus Christ to make peace with us.

Philippians 3:3

But we are the ones who are truly circumcised, because we worship by the power of God's Spirit and take pride in Christ Jesus. We don't boast about what we have done,

Philippians 4:4

Always be glad because of the Lord! I will say it again: be glad.

1 Peter 1:8

You have never seen Jesus, and you don't see him now. But still you love him and have faith in him, and no words can tell how glad and happy

Revelation 7:9

After this, I saw a large crowd with more people than could be counted. They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood before the throne and before the Lamb. They wore white robes and held palm branches in their hands,