Nehemiah 8:13-18
Feast of Booths Restored
13Then on the second day the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests and the Levites were gathered to Ezra the scribe that they might gain insight into the words of the law. 14They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses that the sons of Israel ashould live in booths during the feast of the seventh month, 15aand that they should make the report heard and make a proclamation of it pass throughout all their cities and bin Jerusalem, saying, “cGo out to the hills, and bring olive branches and 1wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.” 16So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each aon his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at bthe Water Gate and in the square at cthe Gate of Ephraim. 17The entire assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths. The sons of Israel ahad indeed not done so from the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day. And bthere was exceedingly great gladness. 18aAnd he read from the book of the law of God daily, from the first day to the last day. And they bcelebrated the feast seven days, and on cthe eighth day there was a solemn assembly according to the legal judgment.