“Also 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.”
So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the Lord for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. The agricultural framing of the Festival of Tabernacles: after you have gathered the crops. The celebration follows the completion of the harvest. The timing communicates the festival's character: the community that has received the full harvest celebrates the Giver of the harvest with a seven-day feast. The first and eighth days of Sabbath rest bracket the celebration with the covenant's temporal holiness.
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