Leviticus 23:33–44

The Festival of Booths

³³The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴“Speak to the Israelites, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and lasting seven days, there shall be the Festival of Booths^a to the Lord.^{* 35}The first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not work at your occupations. ³⁶Seven days you shall present the Lord’s offerings by fire;^b on the eighth day you shall observe a holy convocation and present the Lord’s offerings by fire;^c it is a solemn assembly; you shall not work at your occupations.^*

³⁷“These are the appointed festivals of the Lord that you shall celebrate as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord offerings by fire^d—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day^*—³⁸apart from the Sabbaths of the Lord and apart from your gifts and apart from all your votive offerings and apart from all your freewill offerings that you give to the Lord.

³⁹“Now, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the festival of the Lord, lasting seven days, a complete rest on the first day and a complete rest on the eighth day.^{* 40}On the first day you shall take the fruit of majestic^e trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.^{* 41}You shall keep it as a festival to the Lord lasting seven days in the year; you shall keep it in the seventh month as a statute forever throughout your generations. ⁴²You shall live in booths for seven days; all who are native-born in Israel shall live in booths,^{* 43}so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

⁴⁴Thus Moses declared to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the Lord.^*