2 Maccabees 10:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ On the anniversary of the temple’s defilement by foreigners, on that very day, the sanctuary was purified, on the twenty-fifth of the month, which is Kislev.^{[a] 6} They celebrated eight days with cheer in a manner like the Festival of Booths, remembering how during the previous Festival of Booths they had been roaming about in mountains and caverns like animals. ⁷ So they held ivy wands, beautiful branches, and also palm leaves, and offered hymns to the one who had made the purification of his own temple^[b] possible.