⁴⁰ And ^(A)you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and ^(B)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. ^41 (C)You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. ^42 (D)You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, ⁴³ that ^(E)your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

¹⁵ and that they should proclaim it and ^(A)publish it in all their towns and ^(B)in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring ^(C)branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.” ¹⁶ So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each ^(D)on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at ^(E)the Water Gate and in the square at ^(F)the Gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day ^(G)the people of Israel had not done so. And there was ^(H)very great rejoicing.

² the king said to ^(A)Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell ^(B)in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells ^(C)in a tent.”

⁹ By faith he went to live in ^(A)the land of promise, as in a foreign land, ^(B)living in tents ^(C)with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to ^(D)the city that has ^(E)foundations, ^(F)whose designer and builder is God. ¹¹ By faith ^(G)Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered ^(H)him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore from one man, and ^(I)him as good as dead, were born descendants ^(J)as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

¹³ These all died in faith, ^(K)not having received the things promised, but ^(L)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and ^(M)having acknowledged that they were ^(N)strangers and exiles on the earth.

² Now ^(A)the Jews' Feast of ^(B)Booths was at hand.

¹⁶ Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem ^(A)shall go up year after year to worship ^(B)the King, the Lord of hosts, and ^(C)to keep ^(D)the Feast of Booths. ¹⁷ And if ^(E)any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship ^(F)the King, the Lord of hosts, ^(G)there will be no rain on them. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain;^[a] there shall be ^(H)the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up ^(I)to keep the Feast of Booths. ¹⁹ This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up ^(J)to keep the Feast of Booths.

⁷ You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, ^(A)that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’