John 7:2
Good News Translation
The time for the Festival of Shelters was near,

New Revised Standard Version
Now the Jewish festival of Booths was near.

Contemporary English Version
It was almost time for the Festival of Shelters,

New American Bible
But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand.

Exodus 23:16,17 And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field. . . .

Leviticus 23:34-43 Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles, seven days to the Lord. . . .

Numbers 29:12-38 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be unto you holy and venerable, you shall do no servile work, but shall celebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:13-16 Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress. . . .

1 Kings 8:2,65 And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the festival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month. . . .

2 Chronicles 7:9,10 And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days. . . .

Ezra 3:4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment, the duty of the day in its day.

Nehemiah 8:14-18 And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in tabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month: . . .

Zechariah 14:16-19 And all they that shall be left of all nations that came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. . . .

Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
1After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand. 3And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.…
Cross References
Leviticus 23:34
Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles, seven days to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:13
Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress.

Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:

Zechariah 14:16
And all they that shall be left of all nations that came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

John 7:1
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