Ezekiel 45:25 → Deuteronomy 16:13

Deuteronomy 16:13 and Ezekiel 45:25 share the core of the command — a חַג (chag, "feast") kept שִׁבְעַת יָמִים (shiv'at yamim, "seven days") in the autumn — and diverge on everything that gives Deuteronomy's version its texture. Deuteronomy names the feast חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת (chag hassukkot, "the Feast of Booths") and times it by the crop: "after you have gathered (אָסַף, asaph) the produce of your threshing floor (גֹּרֶן, goren) and your winepress (יֶקֶב, yeqeb)." Ezekiel uses none of those words. He never says סֻכּוֹת, never says אָסַף, and fixes the feast instead to the fifteenth day of the seventh month — a date, not a harvest. The exchange matters more than it looks. Deuteronomy's timing makes the feast an act of thanksgiving that presupposes a good year; Ezekiel's makes it an appointment God keeps regardless. For readers whose land had been taken, that is the difference between a feast and a memory. And where Deuteronomy tells the worshiper to gather, Ezekiel tells the prince to provide (45:17, 22-25). The pattern runs straight into the gospel: the table Christ sets is not stocked from our threshing floor and does not wait on our yield, which is precisely why it can be spread for the poor — "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat!" (Isaiah 55:1).