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Ezra 3:4
They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the post-exilic community in Jerusalem resuming corporate worship after rebuilding the altar. They restore festival observance and daily sacrifice despite fear of local opposition.
The words — חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת (chag ha-sukkot) literally means "festival of booths," designating the autumn gathering. כַּכְּתוּב (ka-ketuv) translates to "according to what is written," binding their practice to a fixed text.
The thread — The festival's timing and obligations match Exodus 23:16 and Numbers 29:12, while its later reconstruction is recorded in Nehemiah 8:14. The daily burnt offerings extend the altar ministry begun in Ezra 3:3 and continue through Ezra 3:5.
Why it lands — The text commands ritual observance strictly according to written law rather than cultural adaptation. Readers must submit communal worship to explicit scriptural mandates and maintain disciplined, day-by-day obedience.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
Cross-references
- Exodus 23:16 You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
- Numbers 29:12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.
- Nehemiah 8:14 And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,
- Zechariah 14:16 Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
- John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Exodus 5:13 The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
- Exodus 29:38 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- Leviticus 23:34 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.
- Jeremiah 52:34 And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
- John 7:2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.