Deuteronomy 16:13

13 "You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselves seven days {at the gathering in of the produce} from your threshing floor and from your press;

Deuteronomy 16:13 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 16:13

Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days
Which began on the fifteenth day of Tisri, or September; see ( Leviticus 23:34 ) , &c.

after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine;
and therefore sometimes called the feast of ingathering, ( Exodus 23:16 ) , barley harvest began at the passover, and wheat harvest at Pentecost; and before the feast of tabernacles began, the vintage and the gathering of the olives were over, as well as all other summer fruits were got in.

Deuteronomy 16:13 In-Context

11 And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that [is] in your {towns} and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there.

12 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and [so] {you shall diligently observe} these rules.

13 "You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselves seven days {at the gathering in of the produce} from your threshing floor and from your press;

14 and you shall rejoice at your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite and the orphan and the widow that [are] in your {towns}.

15 Seven days you shall celebrate [your] feast to Yahweh your God at the place Yahweh will choose, for Yahweh your God shall bless you in all of your produce and in all [of] the work of your hand, and you shall surely [be] rejoicing.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "for you"
• [b]. Literally "at your gathering [of the produce]"