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Exodus 23:16
Exodus 23:16 is verse 16 of Exodus chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
That is, Shavuot, the late spring feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; it is also known as the Feast of Weeks (see Exodus 34:22) or the Feast of Pentecost (see Acts 2:1).
That is, Sukkot, the autumn feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; it is later called the Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths or Shelters).
King James Version
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
World English Bible
And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
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Exodus 23:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
15 You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
16 You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
17 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
18 You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
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Exodus 22:29You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
Exodus 34:22And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
Leviticus 23:9And the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 23:10“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
Leviticus 23:11And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.
Leviticus 23:12On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,
Leviticus 23:13along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
Leviticus 23:14You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
Leviticus 23:15From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
Leviticus 23:16You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:17Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:18Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:19You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.
Leviticus 23:20The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Leviticus 23:21On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
Numbers 28:26On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Numbers 28:27Present a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old as a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
Numbers 28:28together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
Numbers 28:29and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven lambs.
Numbers 28:30Include one male goat to make atonement for you.
Numbers 28:31Offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. The animals must be unblemished.
Deuteronomy 16:9You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
Deuteronomy 16:10And you shall celebrate the Feast 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,
Deuteronomy 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
Deuteronomy 16:12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
Acts 2:1When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
Leviticus 23:34“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.
Leviticus 23:35On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.
Leviticus 23:36For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Leviticus 23:37These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting offerings by fire to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.
Leviticus 23:38These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:39On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.
Leviticus 23:40On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
Leviticus 23:41You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus 23:42You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,
Leviticus 23:43so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”
Leviticus 23:44So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.
Numbers 29:12On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.
Numbers 29:13As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:14along with the grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil with each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah with each of the two rams,
Numbers 29:15and a tenth of an ephah with each of the fourteen lambs.
Numbers 29:16Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:17On the second day you are to present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:18along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:19Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:20On the third day you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:21along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:22Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:23On the fourth day you are to present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:24along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:25Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:26On the fifth day you are to present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:27along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:28Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:29On the sixth day you are to present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:30along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:31Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:32On the seventh day you are to present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:33along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:34Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:35On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Numbers 29:36As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:37along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:38Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:39You are to present these offerings to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, or peace offerings.”
Deuteronomy 16:13You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
Deuteronomy 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
Deuteronomy 16:15For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
Nehemiah 8:14And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
Nehemiah 8:15So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
Nehemiah 8:16And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the court of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.
Nehemiah 8:17The whole assembly who had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated like this. And there was great rejoicing.
Nehemiah 8:18Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.
Zechariah 14:16Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:17And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.
Zechariah 14:18And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:19This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
John 7:2However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
John 7:37On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.