³¹ So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.^(A)

¹⁷ And whatever you do,^(A) whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks^(B) to God the Father through him.

²³ Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,

¹¹ If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God.^(A) If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides,^(B) so that in all things God may be praised^(C) through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.^(D)

¹⁸ Instead, you are to eat^(A) them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God will choose^(B)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice^(C) before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to.

⁴¹ But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor,^(A) and everything will be clean for you.^(B)

⁵ “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted^(A) and mourned in the fifth and seventh^(B) months for the past seventy years,^(C) was it really for me that you fasted? ⁶ And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?^(D)

¹⁶ So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate^(A) and the one by the Gate of Ephraim.^{(B) 17} The whole company that had returned from exile built temporary shelters and lived in them.^(C) From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated^(D) it like this. And their joy was very great.

¹⁸ Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read^(E) from the Book of the Law^(F) of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation,^(G) there was an assembly.^(H)

⁷ There, in the presence^(A) of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice^(B) in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.