Nehemiah 8:12–18

¹²And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to ^jsend portions, and to make great mirth, because they had ^kunderstood the words that were declared unto them. ¹³And on the second day ^lwere gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law. ¹⁴And they found written in the law which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in ^mbooths in the feast of the seventh month: ¹⁵and that they should ⁿpublish and proclaim in all their cities, and ^oin Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and ^ppine branches, and myrtle branches, and ^qpalm branches, and branches of ^qthick trees, to make booths, as it is written. ¹⁶So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon ^rthe roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in ^sthe street of the water gate, and in the street of the ^tgate of Ephraim. ¹⁷And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day ^uhad not the children of Israel done so. And there was very ^xgreat gladness. ¹⁸Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, ^yhe read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.

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