• Deuteronomy 16:13-15
  “You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress. And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates. Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.
   
• Leviticus 23:40-43
  And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.'"
   
• Deuteronomy 14:23
  And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
   
• Nehemiah 8:17
  So the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great gladness.
   
• Deuteronomy 14:26
  And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
   
• Isaiah 1:10-17
  Hear the word of the LORD,
  You rulers of Sodom;
  Give ear to the law of our God,
  You people of Gomorrah:
  "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?"
  Says the LORD.
  " I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
  And the fat of fed cattle.
  I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
  Or of lambs or goats.
  "When you come to appear before Me,
  Who has required this from your hand,
  To trample My courts?
  Bring no more futile sacrifices;
  Incense is an abomination to Me.
  The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—
  I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
  Your New Moons and your appointed feasts
  My soul hates;
  They are a trouble to Me,
  I am weary of bearing them.
  When you spread out your hands,
  I will hide My eyes from you;
  Even though you make many prayers,
  I will not hear.
  Your hands are full of blood.
  "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
  Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
  Cease to do evil,
  Learn to do good;
  Seek justice,
  Rebuke the oppressor;
  Defend the fatherless,
  Plead for the widow.
  
   

Related Scriptures

• Amos 5:21-24
  "I hate, I despise your feast days,
  And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
  Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
  I will not accept them,
  Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
  Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
  For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
  But let justice run down like water,
  And righteousness like a mighty stream.
  
   
• Exodus 23:14-16
  “Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty); and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
   
• Nehemiah 8:9
  And Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.