Deuteronomy 16:14

“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.”

Deuteronomy 16:14 · direct translation from the Hebrew
Study it in the app

The Feast of Booths includes the slave, the Levite, the foreigner and the widowJoy and thanks

With the Hebrew beneath

14

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.

Read all of Deuteronomy 16

How to use it