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Deuteronomy 8:16

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8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you 1  and eventually bring good to you.

Deuteronomy 16:13

Context
The Festival of Temporary Shelters

16:13 You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters 2  for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest. 3 

1 tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.

2 tn The Hebrew phrase חַג הַסֻּכֹּת (khag hassukot, “festival of huts” or “festival of shelters”) is traditionally known as the Feast of Tabernacles. The rendering “booths” (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV) is now preferable to the traditional “tabernacles” (KJV, ASV, NIV) in light of the meaning of the term סֻכָּה (sukkah, “hut; booth”), but “booths” are frequently associated with trade shows and craft fairs in contemporary American English. Clearer is the English term “shelters” (so NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT), but this does not reflect the temporary nature of the living arrangement. This feast was a commemoration of the wanderings of the Israelites after they left Egypt, suggesting that a translation like “temporary shelters” is more appropriate.

3 tn Heb “when you gather in your threshing-floor and winepress.”



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