Nehemiah 08 The Feast of Tabernacles

 Nehemiah 08

The Feast of Tabernacles

13 On the next day the heads of the fathers' houses of all the people, the priests and the Levites, gathered together to Ezra the scribe, that they might attend to the words of the law.

14 And they found written in the law which the Lord commanded through Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths on the feast day in the seventh month.

15 So they published it, and proclaimed it throughout all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the mountain and bring olive branches, wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written."

 16 So the people went out and brought everything and made booths for themselves, each on his roof and in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, in the square of the Water Gate and in the square of the Ephraim Gate.

17 And the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for the children of Israel had never done so from the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day. And there was great joy.

18 And he read in the Book of the Law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. And they kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day the closing feast, according to the ordinance.