You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
13. Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles. Its first day was called the day of In-gathering, (collectionum,) because the produce of the whole year was then stored in their granaries “Aux greniers, ou aux caves, ou fenils, et gardoirs de toute provision.” — Fr. and provision cellars.
The three yearly feasts kept up communion between God and His people and preserved the face of religion in the nation. One week only was festival, yet their solemn preparation before and serious reflection afterward amounted to observance of the whole month; thus the ceremonies themselves became the means by which God's truth took root in their hearts.
AI summary
Commenting on Deuteronomy 16:1-17
Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days,.... Which began on the fifteenth day of Tisri, or September; see Lev 23:34, &c. after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine; and therefore sometimes called the feast of ingathering, Exo 23:16, barley harvest began at the passover, and wheat harvest at Pentecost; and before the feast of tabernacles began, the vintage and...