⁹“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. ^q¹⁰You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks ^rto the Lord your God with a freewill offering ^sthat you give in proportion to how the Lord your God has blessed you. ¹¹Rejoice ^tbefore Yahweh your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you. ¹²Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.

The Festival of Booths

¹³“You are to celebrate the Festival of Booths ^ufor seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress. ^v¹⁴Rejoice during your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates. ¹⁵You 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, ^wand you will have abundant joy.

¹⁶“All your males are to appear three times a year ^xbefore the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed. ^y

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Cross references

q16:9–12 Lv 23:15–21
r16:10 Ex 34:22; Nm 28:26; 2Chr 8:13
s16:10 Ex 35:29; Lv 7:16; 22:21, 23; Nm 15:3; Ezr 1:4, 6; 8:28; Ps 54:6
t16:11 Lv 23:40; Dt 12:12; 14:26; 26:11; 27:7
u16:13 Lv 23:34; Dt 31:10; 2Ch 8:13; Ezr 3:4; Zch 14:16–19
v16:13–15 Lv 23:33–43
w16:15 Ex 23:14, 17; 34:23–24; 1Kg 9:25
x16:16 Ex 23:14, 17; 34:23–24; 1Kg 9:25; Lk 2:42
y16:16 Ex 3:21; 23:15; 34:20