Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.
New American Standard Bible
Now the feast of the Jews,
King James Version
Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Holman Bible
The Jewish Festival of Tabernacles
International Standard Version
Now the Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.
A Conservative Version
Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was near.
American Standard Version
Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.
Amplified
Now the Jewish
An Understandable Version
Now it was almost time for the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles [Note: This was also called "Festival of Shelters," and was one of three principal, annual Jewish festivals and commemorated the occasion of the Israelites living in tents or shelters during their forty year wandering in the desert].
Anderson New Testament
Now the feast of tabernacles, a feast of the Jews, was near.
Common New Testament
Now the Jews' feast of Tabernacles was at hand.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Jews feast of the tabernacles drawing nigh,
Darby Translation
Now the tabernacles, the feast of the Jews, was near.
Godbey New Testament
And the feast of the Jews, tabernacles, was nigh.
Goodspeed New Testament
But the Jewish camping festival was coming.
John Wesley New Testament
Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was nigh.
Julia Smith Translation
And the festival of the Jews was near, the Pitching of tents.
King James 2000
Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now the feast of the Jews--the [feast of] Tabernacles--was near.
Modern King James verseion
And the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The Jews' tabernacle feast was at hand.
Moffatt New Testament
Now the Jewish festival of booths was near,
Montgomery New Testament
When the time of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles drew near,
NET Bible
Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
New Heart English Bible
Now the Jewish festival, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.
Noyes New Testament
Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.
Sawyer New Testament
AND the feast of the Jews was nigh, the feast of tabernacles.
The Emphasized Bible
But the feast of the Jews was near, that of the pitching of tents.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And a feast of the Jews was nigh, the feast of tabernacles.
Twentieth Century New Testament
When the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
Webster
Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Weymouth New Testament
But the Jewish Festival of the Tent-Pitching was approaching.
Williams New Testament
Now the Jewish feast of Dwelling in Tents was approaching.
World English Bible
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
Worrell New Testament
Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.
Worsley New Testament
Now the Jews feast called the feast of tabernacles was near;
Youngs Literal Translation
and the feast of the Jews was nigh -- that of tabernacles --
Themes
Feast of Tabernacles » Customs observed at » Drawing water from the pool of siloam
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 7:2
Images John 7:2
Prayers for John 7:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus' Brothers Do Not Believe In Him
1 After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death. 2 But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near. 3 So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.
Cross References
Zechariah 14:16-19
And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
Exodus 23:16-17
And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.
Numbers 29:12-38
And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;
Deuteronomy 16:13-16
You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine:
Leviticus 23:34-43
Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.
1 Kings 8:2
And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.
1 Kings 8:65
So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.
2 Chronicles 7:9-10
And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.
Ezra 3:4
And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.
Nehemiah 8:14-18
And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month: