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Exodus 23

Ex. 23:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the feast
chag (Hebrew #2282)
from 2287; a festival, or a victim therefor
KJV usage: (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.
Pronounce: khag
Origin: or chag {khawg}
of harvest
qatsiyr (Hebrew #7105)
severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage)
KJV usage: bough, branch, harvest (man).
Pronounce: kaw-tseer'
Origin: from 7114
, the firstfruits
bikkuwr (Hebrew #1061)
the first-fruits of the crop
KJV usage: first fruit (-ripe (figuratively)), hasty fruit.
Pronounce: bik-koor'
Origin: from 1069
of thy labors
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
, which thou hast sown
zara` (Hebrew #2232)
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
KJV usage: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Pronounce: zaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
in the field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
: and the feast
chag (Hebrew #2282)
from 2287; a festival, or a victim therefor
KJV usage: (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.
Pronounce: khag
Origin: or chag {khawg}
of ingathering
'aciyph (Hebrew #614)
from 622; gathered, i.e. (abstractly) a gathering in of crops
KJV usage: ingathering.
Pronounce: aw-seef'
Origin: or maciph {aw-seef'}
, which is in the end
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
of the year
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
, when thou hast gathered
'acaph (Hebrew #622)
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
Pronounce: aw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
in thy labors
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
out of the field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
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Feasts,
First-Fruits,
Harvest,
Year

Cross References

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feast of harvest.
Ex. 22:29• 29{i}—Thou shalt not delay the fullness of thy threshing-floor and the outflow of thy winepress. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.{/i} (Ex. 22:29)
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Ex. 34:22• 22{i}—And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.{/i} (Ex. 34:22)
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Lev. 23:9‑21• 9And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
 10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest.
 11And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you; on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
 12And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf, an he-lamb without blemish, of the first year, for a burnt offering unto Jehovah:
 13and the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth-deals of fine flour, mingled with oil; an offering made by fire unto Jehovah for a sweet savour; {i}and the drink-offering thereof, of wine, a fourth part of a hin.{/i}
 14And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
 15And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering, seven Sabbaths shall be complete,
 16even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah.
 17{i}Out of your dwellings shall ye bring two wave-loaves, of two tenths of fine flour; with leaven shall they be baken; as first-fruits to Jehovah.{/i}
 18And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs, without blemish, of the first year; and one young bullock, and ten rams: they shall be for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah {i}with their oblation, and their drink-offerings, an offering by fire of a sweet odour to Jehovah{/i}.
 19Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings.
 20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave-offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest.
 21And ye shall proclaim on the self-same day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. (Lev. 23:9‑21)
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Num. 28:26‑31• 26And in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meal-offering unto Jehovah , after your weeks be out, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
 27but ye shall offer the burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto Jehovah; two young bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year.
 28{i}and their oblation of fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for one bullock, two tenth parts for the ram,{/i}
 29{i}one tenth part for each lamb of the seven lambs;{/i}
 30{i}and one buck of the goats, to make atonement for you.{/i}
 31{i}Ye shall offer them besides the continual burnt-offering, and its oblation (without blemish shall they be unto you), and their drink-offerings{/i}. (Num. 28:26‑31)
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Deut. 16:9‑12• 9Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
 10And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto Jehovah thy God, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee:
 11and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant{i}, and the Levite that is in thy gates{/i}, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you {i}in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there{/i}.
 12And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. (Deut. 16:9‑12)
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Acts 2:1• 1And when the day of Pentecost was in course of fulfilment, they were all together in one place. (Acts 2:1)
in-gathering.
Ex. 34:22• 22{i}—And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.{/i} (Ex. 34:22)
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Lev. 23:34‑44• 34Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto Jehovah.
 35On the first day shall be an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein.
 36Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord; on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. It is a solemn assembly, and ye shall do no servile work therein.
 37{i}These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and an oblation, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, everything upon its day;{/i}
 38{i}besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary offerings, which ye give to Jehovah.{/i}
 39Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto Jehovah seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath.
 40Ye 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 Jehovah your God seven days.
 41{i}And ye shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year: it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month shall ye celebrate it.{/i}
 42{i}In booths shall ye dwell seven days; all born in Israel shall dwell in booths;{/i}
 43{i}that your generations may know that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.{/i}
 44{i}And Moses declared the set feasts of Jehovah to the children of Israel.{/i} (Lev. 23:34‑44)
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Num. 29:12‑39• 12On 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:
 13and ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Jehovah; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year ({i}they shall be without blemish{/i});
 14{i}and their oblation of fine flour mingled with oil: three tenth parts for each bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,{/i}
 15{i}and one tenth part for each lamb of the fourteen lambs;{/i}
 16{i}and one buck of the goats for a sin-offering, —besides the continual burnt-offering, its oblation and its drink-offering{/i}.
 17{i}And on the second day, y{/i}e shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year {i}without blemish;{/i}
 18{i}and their oblation and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;{/i}
 19{i}and one buck of the goats for a sin-offering, —besides the continual burnt-offering and its oblation, and their drink-offerings.{/i}
 20{i}And on the third day, eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;{/i}
 21{i}and their oblation and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;{/i}
 22{i}and one he-goat for a sin-offering, —besides the continual burnt-offering and its oblation and its drink-offering.{/i}
 23{i}And on the fourth day, ten bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;{/i}
 24{i}their oblation and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;{/i}
 25{i}and one buck of the goats for a sin-offering, —besides the continual burnt-offering, its oblation and its drink-offering.{/i}
 26{i}And on the fifth day, nine bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;{/i}
 27{i}and their oblation and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;{/i}
 28{i}and one he-goat for a sin-offering, —besides the continual burnt-offering and its oblation and its drink-offering.{/i}
 29{i}And on the sixth day, eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;{/i}
 30{i}and their oblation and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;{/i}
 31{i}and one he-goat for a sin-offering, —besides the continual burnt-offering, its oblation and its drink-offerings.{/i}
 32{i}And on the seventh day, seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;{/i}
 33{i}and their oblation and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to their ordinance;{/i}
 34{i}and one he-goat for a sin-offering, —besides the continual burnt-offering, its oblation and its drink-offering.{/i}
 35{i}On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: no manner of servile work shall ye do.{/i}
 36Ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Jehovah, one bullock, one ram, and seven lambs {i}of the first year{/i} {i}without blemish;{/i}
 37{i}their oblation and their drink-offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;{/i}
 38{i}and one he-goat for a sin-offering, —besides the continual burnt-offering and its oblation and its drink-offering.{/i}
 39{i}These shall ye offer to Jehovah in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your voluntary-offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your oblations, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings.{/i} (Num. 29:12‑39)
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Deut. 16:13‑15• 13Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine.
 14{i}And{/i} thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son and thy daughter{i}, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in thy gates{/i}.
 15Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose: because Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the increase of thine hands; therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. (Deut. 16:13‑15)
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Neh. 8:14‑18• 14{i}And they found written in the law which Jehovah had commanded through Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month,{/i}
 15{i}and that they should publish and proclaim through all their cities, and at Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive-branches, and wild olive-branches, and myrtle-branches, and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.{/i}
 16{i}And the people went forth and brought them, and made themselves booths, everyone upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the open space of the water-gate, and in the open space of the gate of Ephraim.{/i}
 17{i}And all the congregation of them that had come back from the captivity made booths, and dwelt in the booths. For since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun until that day had not the children of Israel done so.{/i} And there was very great gladness.
 18Also 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 there was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner. (Neh. 8:14‑18)
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Zech. 14:16‑19• 16And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of all the nations which come against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
 17And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
 18And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith Jehovah will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
 19{i}This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.{/i} (Zech. 14:16‑19)
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John 7:2,37• 2Now the feast of the Jews, the tabernacles, was near.
 37Now in the last, the great, day of the feast Jesus stood and cried, saying, If anyone thirst, let him come unto me and drink. (John 7:2,37)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of in-gathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.

W. Kelly Translation

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and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of in-gathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)