2 Maccabees 10:5–8

⁵It happened that on the same day on which the sanctuary had been profaned by the foreigners, the purification of the sanctuary took place, that is, on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, which was Chislev.^{* 6}They celebrated it for eight days with rejoicing, in the manner of the Festival of Booths,^w remembering how not long before, during the Festival of Booths,^x they had been wandering in the mountains and caves like wild animals.^{* 7}Therefore, carrying ivy-wreathed wands and beautiful branches and also palm fronds, they offered hymns of thanksgiving to him who had given success to the purifying of his own holy place.^{* 8}They decreed by public edict, ratified by vote, that the whole nation of the Jews should observe these days every year.