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Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents[a] here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

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  1. 17:4 Three tents: the booths in which the Israelites lived during the feast of Tabernacles (cf. Jn 7:2) were meant to recall their ancestors’ dwelling in booths during the journey from Egypt to the promised land (Lv 23:39–42). The same Greek word, skēnē, here translated tents, is used in the LXX for the booths of that feast, and some scholars have suggested that there is an allusion here to that liturgical custom.