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- noun Plural form of
tabernacle .
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- noun a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness
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Examples
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Secondly, he changed the feast of tabernacles from the fifteenth of the seventh to the fifteenth of the eighth month.
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Though Israel deserves to be cast off for ever, yet I am still what I have been from the time of My delivering them out of Egypt, their covenant God; therefore, "I will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles," that is, to keep the feast of tabernacles again in remembrance of a new deliverance out of bondage.
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The saints, who sojourned once in tabernacles as pilgrims, shall have a
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He dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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The patriarchs, by dwelling in tabernacles, confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth, and sought the better country, and so did Christ, leaving us an example, Heb. xiii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Some make that to be so (v. 9), I will make thee to dwell in tabernacles as in the days of the appointed time, that is, I will bring thee into such a condition as the
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Jewish law, no part of the sin-offering was to be eaten, but all must be burnt without the camp while they dwelt in tabernacles, and without the gates when they dwelt in cities: now, if they will still be subject to that law, they cannot eat at the gospel-altar; for that which is eaten there is furnished from Christ, who is the great sin-offering.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Canaan was a land of pilgrimage to their fathers the patriarchs, who dwelt there in tabernacles; but then God was their habitation, and, wherever they went, they were at home, at rest, in him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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His retirement in the evening out of the town (v. 1): He went unto the mount of olives; whether to some friend's house, or to some booth pitched there, now at the feast of tabernacles, is not certain; whether he rested there, or, as some think, continued all night in prayer to
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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