Leviticus 23:41

You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Yahweh addresses Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness, concluding the instructions for the seventh-month festival cycle. The command immediately follows the specific gathering and rejoicing directives for the first day of the feast.

The words — The text highlights חַגֹּתֶ֤ם (cha.go.Tem), meaning "you will celebrate a festival," and חֻקַּ֤ת (chu.Kat), meaning "a statute" or "permanent ordinance." These terms frame the instruction as a binding, recurring obligation rather than a voluntary gathering.

The thread — This directive for a seven-day seventh-month feast appears in Numbers 29:12 as a sacred assembly command and is later observed in Nehemiah 8:18 during the post-exilic restoration. Both references track the same calendrical and liturgical requirement.

Why it lands — The verse demands annual, multi-day observance of a specific feast in the seventh month as a fixed legal requirement. Readers must treat the instruction as a non-negotiable calendar marker rather than a suggestion.

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The Hebrew words

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King James Version

And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Cross-references

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 8:18 Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.