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Leviticus 23:41 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 23 · verse 41
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 · King James Version
Leviticus 23:41 in context
39Also 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.
40And 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.
41And 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.
42Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43That 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- generationsdôwrproperly, a revolution of timeH1755 →
- statutechuqqâh{an enactmentH2708 →
- seventhshᵉbîyʻîyseventhH7637 →
- feastchaga festival, or a victim thereforH2282 →
- sevenshebaʻsevenH7651 →
- keepchâgagproperly, to move in acircleH2287 →
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We have here, I. The institution of the feast of tabernacles, which was one of the three great feasts at which all the males were bound to attend, and celebrated with more expressions of joy than any of them. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 33-44