Week 73 - November 13, 2015 Steve's Bible Study
The Jewish Fall Feasts: Sukkot "The Feast of Tabernacles" (Part 3)
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[Exodus 23:14-17; Leviticus 23:33-44; 24:1-9; Zechariah 14:16-19;
John 7:2,10,37-39; 8:12; 12:12-15; Revelation 21:1-8]

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NOTE: The "feast" mentioned in John 12:12 is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, not the Feast of Tabernacles. But the "feast' mentioned in John 7:10 is the Feast of Tabernacles.
Jewish Fall Feasts - The feast of Tabernacles (Part 3)

Tabernacle

(Hebrew: "cukkah" - Booth; thicket, temporary shelter, made of interwoven leaves/branches)

Ingathering
(Tishri 10)
(Sept/Oct)

(Hebrew: "àcyph" - harvest gathering)
- 7th (+ last) feast commanded Israel to observe
- 1 of 3 feasts every male was to appear at
- 15th day after 7th month, lasting 8 days
- 1st + 8th days - no customary work
- 1st day - gathered palm tree branches, lived in booths (huts)
- pure pressed olive oil to make lamps burn continually
- 12 cakes + frankincense
- 14 umblemished lambs, in 1st year, each day

dwelt
(verb)

(Greek: "skënoò" - to tabernacle; abide, live temporary)