Scriptures About Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
Exodus 34:22-24 "You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. "Three times a year all your males are to appear before YHWH your Elohim, the Elohim of Israel. "For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the YHWH your Elohim.
Leviticus 23: 4, 39-43 'These are the appointed times of YHWH, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them. 'On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of YHWH for seven days, with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day. 'Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim for seven days. 'You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to YHWH for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 'You shall live in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths, so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am YHWH your Elohim.'"
Deuteronomy 14:22-27 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of YHWH your Elohim at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere YHWH your Elohim always. But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by YHWH your Elohim and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where YHWH will choose to put his Name is so far away), then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place YHWH your Elohim will choose. Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of YHWH your Elohim and rejoice. And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
Deuteronomy 16:13-17 "You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; and you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your towns. "Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to YHWH your Elohim in the place which YHWH chooses, because YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful. "Three times in a year all your males shall appear before YHWH your Elohim in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before YHWH empty-handed. "Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of YHWH your Elohim which He has given you.
Deuteronomy 31:10-13 Then Moshe commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of remission of debts, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before YHWH your Elohim at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Yisrael in their hearing. "Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear YHWH your Elohim, and be careful to observe all the words of this law. "Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear YHWH your Elohim, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess."
Numbers 10:10 "Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your Elohim. I am YHWH your Elohim."
2 Chronicles 2:4-8 "Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of YHWH my Elohim, dedicating it to Him, to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on Sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of YHWH our Elohim, this being required forever in Israel.
Psalm 122:1-4 I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of YHWH." Our feet are standing Within your gates, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is built As a city that is compact together; To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of YHWH-- An ordinance for Israel-- To give thanks to the name of YHWH.
Lamentations 1:4-5 The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is bitter. Her adversaries have become her masters, Her enemies prosper; For YHWH has caused her grief Because of the multitude of her transgressions; Her little ones have gone away As captives before the adversary.
Ezekiel 44: 23-24 "Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. "In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My Sabbaths.
Zechariah 14: 16-17 Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, YHWH of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, YHWH of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
