⁷ Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents.^(A) Then you will live a long time in the land^(B) where you are nomads.’

¹⁰ We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab commanded us.

² “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— ³ “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”^[a](A)

¹⁴ They found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters^(A) during the festival of the seventh month ¹⁵ and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters”—as it is written.^[a]

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^(B) and the one by the Gate of Ephraim.^(C)

⁴² Live in temporary shelters^(A) for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters ⁴³ so your descendants will know^(B) that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”