Leviticus 23:33–43

The Feast of Booths

³³Then^h Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴“Speak to the Israelites,ⁱ saying, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, this shall be the Feast of Booths for seven days for Yahweh. ³⁵On the first day there shall be a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.^{j 36}For seven days you must present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh; it is a celebration; you must not do any regular work.^k

Summary

³⁷“ ‘These are Yahweh’s festivals, which you must proclaim, holy assemblies to present an offering made by fire to Yahweh—burnt offering and grain offering, sacrifice and libations, each on its proper day^l— ³⁸besides^m Yahweh’s Sabbaths and besidesⁿ your gifts and besides^o your vows and besides^p all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh.

³⁹“ ‘Surely on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at your gathering the land’s produce, you shall hold Yahweh’s festival for seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest period and on the eighth day a rest period. ⁴⁰And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the first fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and branches^q of a leafy tree and of a brook’s poplar trees, and you shall rejoice before^r Yahweh your God for seven days. ⁴¹And you must hold it as a festival for Yahweh for seven days in the year; it shall be a lasting statute^s throughout your generations; in the seventh month you must hold it. ⁴²You must live in the booths for seven days; all the natives in Israel must live in the booths, ⁴³so that your generations shall know that I made the Israelites^t live in booths when I brought them from the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.’ ”