Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, 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 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was near. 3 His brothers therefore said to him, Depart from here, and go into Judea so that thy disciples also may see thy works that thou do.
Cross References
Zechariah 14:16-19
And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Exodus 23:16-17
and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sow in the field, and the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when thou gather in thy labors out of the field.
Numbers 29:12-38
And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast to LORD seven days.
Deuteronomy 16:13-16
Thou shall keep the feast of tabernacles seven days after thou have gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress.
Leviticus 23:34-43
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days to LORD.
1 Kings 8:2
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
1 Kings 8:65
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
2 Chronicles 7:9-10
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly. For they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Ezra 3:4
And they kept the feast of tabernacles as it is written, and [offered] the daily burnt-offerings by number according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required.
Nehemiah 8:14-18
And they found written in the law how that LORD had commanded by Moses that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month,