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Psalms 81
A festival psalm: 'Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.' God speaks, recalling how he freed Israel from the burden in Egypt and longing that they would listen to him and walk in his ways.
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- The Feast of TabernaclesInside a booth · The Feast of TabernaclesOpen
- verse/john-7-37John 7:37–38Open
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The first night of the feast fell at or near the full moon.
The feast began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (Leviticus 23:34), and months began with the new moon (Numbers 10:10; Psalm 81:3 pairs the new moon and the full moon with a feast). In a lunar calendar the fifteenth is the night of the full moon or c…