Leviticus 23:34–43

³⁴“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On ^athe fifteenth of this seventh month is the ^bFeast of Booths for seven days to the Lord.

³⁵‘On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do ^ano laborious work of any kind.

³⁶‘^aFor seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On ^bthe eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the Lord; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work.

³⁷‘These are ^athe appointed times of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present offerings by fire to the Lord—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, ^beach day’s matter on its own day—

³⁸besides those of the sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts and besides all your ¹votive and freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.

³⁹‘On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ^awhen you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord for seven days, with a ¹rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day.

⁴⁰‘Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the ¹foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

⁴¹‘You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

⁴²‘You shall ¹live ^ain booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths,

⁴³so that ^ayour generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’ ”