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Nehemiah 8:15

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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.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit oil tree, species unknown

Cross references

  1. aLev 23:4
  2. bDeut 16:16
  3. cLev 23:40

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters”—as it is written.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So they proclaimed and spread this news throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make shelters, just as it is written.”

NLTNew Living Translation

He had said that a proclamation should be made throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, telling the people to go to the hills to get branches from olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees. They were to use these branches to make shelters in which they would live during the festival, as prescribed in the Law.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

and that they should proclaim and give voice in all of their cities in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill and bring olive tree branches, olive oil wood branches, myrtle shrub branches, palm tree branches, and other leafy tree branches to make booths, as it is written.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.