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The Feast of Tabernacles: the guided tour as text
The 3D lab's guided tour as a story you can read, stop by stop, with the scripture behind each one. It works on any device, without 3D.
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Inside a booth
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Booth
You're sitting inside a booth on a Jerusalem rooftop, with the harvest set out on the mats.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Read Deuteronomy 16:13–15; Nehemiah 8:15; Leviticus 23:33–36
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Look up
Above you the roof is laid with palm fronds and leafy boughs, with gaps between them.
13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Read Nehemiah 8:15; Leviticus 23:33–36
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Night
Night has come and the full moon is up. Through the gaps in the roof you can see the stars.
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
Read Leviticus 23:33–36
The four species
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All four
These are the four kinds of Leviticus 23:40, held together.
And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
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Goodly fruit
First, the goodly fruit, traditionally a citron.
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Palm branch
The palm branch is the tallest of the four.
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Thick-leaved bough
The thick-leaved bough, traditionally myrtle, has its leaves in close rows.
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Willow
The willow of the brook has long, narrow leaves.
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Show the waving
Watch the four kinds waved toward each direction, a later Jewish custom.
The wilderness camp
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Overview
This is Israel's camp in the wilderness: the tribes around the Tabernacle, under the pillar of cloud.
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Read Exodus 40:38; Numbers 2:2; Numbers 24:5
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Among the tents
Now you're standing among the tents and booths.
For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Read Numbers 2:2; Numbers 24:5
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Night
At night the cloud over the Tabernacle glows with fire.
Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Read Numbers 24:5
Offerings at the altar
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Day 1 of 8
On the first day of the feast, thirteen bulls, two rams and fourteen lambs are offered.
12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: 13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish: 14 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams, 15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs: …
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Day 8 of 8
Day by day the bulls go down to seven; on the eighth day, the solemn assembly, only one bull is offered.
35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein: 36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish: 37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Jerusalem in Nehemiah 8
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Nehemiah 8
This is Jerusalem after the exile, with booths on the roofs and in the squares. Find Ezra reading the Law at the Water Gate square.
16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim. 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
Read Nehemiah 8:18; Nehemiah 8:1; Nehemiah 8:4–5; Nehemiah 8:9
The last great day
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Pool of Siloam
Each morning of the feast a priest fills a golden flagon at the Pool of Siloam.
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Read John 8:12; John 7:2; Isaiah 12:3; Zechariah 14:8
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Up to the Temple
The procession climbs through the city to the Temple, carrying willows and palm branches.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Read John 7:2; Isaiah 12:3; Zechariah 14:8; Zechariah 14:16
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The Water Gate
At the Water Gate the priests sound the shofar.
Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Read Isaiah 12:3; Zechariah 14:8; Zechariah 14:16
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The altar
The water is poured out at the altar. On the last great day Jesus cried, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.”
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Read Zechariah 14:8; Zechariah 14:16
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Great lamps · night
At night golden lampstands light the Court of Women. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world.”
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Read Zechariah 14:16
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