And you shall rejoiceוְשָׂמַחְתָּin your feast,בְּחַגֶּךָyouאַתָּהand your sonוּבִנְךָand your daughter,וּבִתֶּךָyour male slaveוְעַבְדְּךָand your female slave,וַאֲמָתֶךָand the Levite,וְהַלֵּוִיthe resident alien,וְהַגֵּרthe orphan,וְהַיָּתוֹםand the widowוְהָאַלְמָנָהwho areאֲשֶׁרwithin your gates.בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ
Deuteronomy 16:14
Study it in the app“And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite, the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are within your gates.”
The Feast of Booths includes the slave, the Levite, the foreigner and the widowJoy and thanks
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 16:14, word by word
- And you shall rejoiceשָׂמַחְתָּsamachta
rejoice
To feel glad and show it, above all at the feast before YHWH.
Where else “samachta” appears- in your feastחַגֶּchage
festival
Festival in honor of God, with pilgrimage.
Where else “chage” appears- and your sonבִנְvin
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vin” appears- and your daughterבִתֶּvite
daughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “vite” appears- your male slaveעַבְדְּavd
slave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “avd” appears- and your female slaveאֲמָתֶamate
female slave, maidservant
Female slave, maidservant.
Where else “amate” appears- and the Leviteלֵּוִיlevi
Levite
Levite: of the tribe of Levi.
Where else “levi” appears- the resident alienגֵּרger
resident alien
Foreigner who lives in a land that is not his own, without the rights of those who belong to the place.
Where else “ger” appears- the orphanיָּתוֹםyatom
fatherless
Orphan; above all one who has lost his father.
Where else “yatom” appears- and the widowאַלְמָנָהalmana
widow
Widow.
Where else “almana” appears- within your gatesשְׁעָרֶיsheare
gate
The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.
Where else “sheare” appears
The context
13The Feast of Booths you shall celebrate for yourself seven days, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your winepress.
14 · This verse (above)
15Seven days you shall celebrate the feast to YHWH your Elohim in the place that YHWH chooses, for YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.