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Deuteronomy 16:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place he chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands,  and you will have abundant joy.

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For  I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live  and multiply, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.


You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks  to the Lord your God with a freewill offering  that you give in proportion to how the Lord your God has blessed you.


He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your offspring,  , and the produce of your land #– #your grain, new wine, and fresh oil #– #the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks, in the land he swore to your ancestors that he would give you.


Rejoice during your festival #– #you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates.


‘All your males are to appear three times a year  before the Lord your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.


Instead, turn to the place the Lord your God chooses  from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.


The whole community that had returned from exile  made shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not celebrated like this from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day.  And there was tremendous joy.


because during those days the Jews gained relief from  their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday.  They were to be days of feasting,  rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.





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