2 Maccabees 10:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ And they kept eight days with joy, after the manner of the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long before they had kept the feast of the tabernacles when they were in the mountains, and in dens like wild beasts.

⁷ Therefore they now, carried boughs, and green branches, and palms for Him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.

⁸ And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should keep those days every year.