The annual Feast of Tabernacles was a beautiful custom, when the whole people removed from their dwellings to spend the days and nights in the booths, constructed out of the verdant boughs gathered from woodland and forest. How the children must have reveled in the experience, and what a healthy change it made for them all! The great lesson, of course, was to recall the Wilderness experience of their fathers, during which the Almighty was their fellow-pilgrim.
In figure they confessed that they were still pilgrims and strangers on the earth, and had no abiding city, but sought one to come. It was the custom of the feast in later years to pour water, drawn from Siloam, on the Temple pavement, in memory of the water supplies of the Wilderness-the rock that followed them. And it was on that occasion that Jesus uttered His memorable appeal. See John 7:37. [source]
Chapter Summary: Leviticus 23
1The feasts of the Lord 3the Sabbath 4The Passover 9The sheaf of firstfruits 15The feast of Pentecost 22Gleanings to be left for the poor 23The feast of trumpets 26The day of atonement 33The feast of tabernacles
What do the individual words in Leviticus 23:33 mean?