Deuteronomy 12:6-7

12:6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ¹  your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 12:7 Both you and your families ²  must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he ³  has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:11-12

12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing ⁴  everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ⁵  and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. ⁶  12:12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages ⁷  (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 16:10-15

16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks ⁹  before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering ¹⁰  that you will bring, in proportion to how he ¹¹  has blessed you. 16:11 You shall rejoice before him ¹²  – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, ¹³  the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name. 16:12 Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

The Festival of Temporary Shelters

16:13 You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters ¹⁴  for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest. ¹⁵  16:14 You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages. ¹⁶  16:15 You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the Lord your God in the place he ¹⁷  chooses, for he ¹⁸  will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; ¹⁹  so you will indeed rejoice!

Psalms 43:4

43:4 Then I will go ²⁰  to the altar of God,

to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, ²¹ 

so that I express my thanks to you, ²²  O God, my God, with a harp.

Psalms 105:3

105:3 Boast about his holy name!

Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

Isaiah 62:8-9

62:8 The Lord swears an oath by his right hand,

by his strong arm: ²³ 

“I will never again give your grain

to your enemies as food,

and foreigners will not drink your wine,

which you worked hard to produce.

62:9 But those who harvest the grain ²⁴  will eat it,

and will praise the Lord.

Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine ²⁵ 

in the courts of my holy sanctuary.”

[12:6]  ¹ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:7]  ² tn Heb “and your houses,” referring to entire households. The pronouns “you” and “your” are plural in the Hebrew text.

[12:7]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “within your gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “who belongs to your community.”

[12:12]  ⁸ sn They have no allotment or inheritance with you. See note on the word “inheritance” in Deut 10:9.

[16:10]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew phrase חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת (khag shavu’ot) is otherwise known in the OT (Exod 23:16) as קָצִיר (qatsir, “harvest”) and in the NT as πεντηχοστή (penthcosth, “Pentecost”).

[16:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”

[16:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[16:11]  ¹² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[16:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “gates.”

[16:13]  ¹⁴ 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.

[16:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “when you gather in your threshing-floor and winepress.”

[16:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in your gates.”

[16:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[16:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[16:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “in all the work of your hands” (so NASB, NIV); NAB, NRSV “in all your undertakings.”

[43:4]  ²⁰ tn The cohortative expresses the psalmist’s resolve. Prefixed with the vav (ו) conjunctive it also expresses the result or outcome of the preceding verbs “lead” and “escort.”

[43:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “to God, the joy of my happiness.” The phrase “joy of my happiness” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the degree of the psalmist’s joy. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81.

[43:4]  ²² tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive probably indicates purpose (“so that”) or intention.

[62:8]  ²³ tn The Lord’s right hand and strong arm here symbolize his power and remind the audience that his might guarantees the fulfillment of the following promise.

[62:9]  ²⁴ tn Heb “it,” the grain mentioned in v. 8a.

[62:9]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and those who gather it will drink it.” The masculine singular pronominal suffixes attached to “gather” and “drink” refer back to the masculine noun תִּירוֹשׁ (tirosh, “wine”) in v. 8b.