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.
You must celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days every year. This is a permanent law for all your future generations: you must celebrate it in the seventh month.
God is establishing a permanent seven-day festival that His people must celebrate every year in the seventh month as a way to honor Him.
📚 Historical Context
This verse refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (also called Sukkot), one of three major annual festivals God commanded the Israelites to observe. It was celebrated in the seventh month (Tishri, around September-October) and commemorated God's provision during their 40 years of wilderness wandering after leaving Egypt. The festival involved living in temporary shelters to remember how God cared for them when they had no permanent homes.
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