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Leviticus 23:44 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 44. 44And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
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Quick Meaning
This verse reports Moses declaring the appointed times to Israel.
Read It With
- Leviticus 23:33-44
Read through 23:33-44 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 23:44 reports Moses declaring the appointed times to Israel; the whole unit establishes this: A seven-day festival beginning and ending with rest includes daily offerings, gathered produce, rejoicing, temporary booths, and remembrance that Israel lived in booths after Egypt.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Leviticus places this unit within the appointed-time calendar, which moves from weekly Sabbath through spring and autumn festivals while joining worship, rest, harvest, generosity, and memory. Its particular contribution is: A seven-day festival beginning and ending with rest includes daily offerings, gathered produce, rejoicing, temporary booths, and remembrance that Israel lived in booths after Egypt. Within that movement, this verse reports Moses declaring the appointed times to Israel.
What Remains True
Reports Moses declaring the appointed times to Israel. Within Leviticus 23:33-44, this contributes to the larger claim that a seven-day festival beginning and ending with rest includes daily offerings, gathered produce, rejoicing, temporary booths, and remembrance that Israel lived in booths after Egypt.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 23:44, keep the verse inside Leviticus 23:33-44. Hold this boundary: Rejoicing is commanded within Israel's memory and cannot be reduced to decoration borrowed without Jewish context. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 23:33-44 — Booths join harvest joy, rest, offerings, and exodus memorySources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 23:33-44, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 23:33-44
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 23:33-44
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