"And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. {It shall be} a statute for ever in your generations:…" — Leviticus 23:41

Leviticus 23:41 · KJV

“And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. {It shall be} a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.”

— Leviticus 23:41

Verse 40

And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. {boughs of goodly trees: Heb. fruit of, etc}

Verse 42

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

Leviticus 23 — Context

Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day {shall be} a sabbath, and on the eighth day {shall be} a sabbath.

And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. {It shall be} a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I {am} the LORD your God.

Cross References

Numbers 29:12

And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:

Nehemiah 8:18

Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day {was} a solemn assembly, according unto the manner. {a solemn...: Heb. a restraint}