| 41. Linguistic Exegesis The opening vav links this command to earlier festival prescriptions, with vechaggotem {וְחַגֹּתֶם | wə-ḥag-ṯêm} ‘and you shall celebrate’ marking a sequenced imperative. The immediate pronoun oto {אֹתוֹ | ʾōṯô} specifies ‘this festival.’ Placing the prepositional phrase after the noun in chag la-Yahweh {חַג לַיהוָה | ḥagg la-Yəhōwāh} emphasizes dedication to the covenant LORD. The temporal phrase shivat yamim ba-shanah {שִׁבְעַת יָמִים בַּשָּׁנָה | šivʿat yāmîm ba-šānāh} uses a construct chain to express the festival’s annual seven-day duration. The clause chukkat olam le-doroteichem {חֻקַּת עוֹלָם לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶם | ḥuqqat ʿôlām le-ḏōrōṯê-kem} links the enduring statute to successive generations through another construct relationship. Finally, bachodesh ha-shevi'i tachogu oto {בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי תָּחֹגוּ אֹתֽוֹ | ba-ḥōḏēš ha-šᵉḇîʿî ṯāḥôgû ʾōṯô} restates the imperative and situates it within the liturgical calendar by specifying the seventh month. |