Leviticus 23:33-44

Common English Bible

³³The Lord said to Moses: ³⁴Say to the Israelites: The Festival of Booths to the Lord will start on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and will last for seven days. ³⁵The first day is a holy occasion. You must not do any job-related work. ³⁶For seven days you will offer food gifts to the Lord. On the eighth day you will have a holy occasion and must offer a food gift to the Lord. It is a holiday: you must not do any job-related work.

³⁷These are the Lord’s appointed times that you will proclaim as holy occasions, offering food gifts to the Lord: entirely burned offerings, grain offerings, communal sacrifices, and drink offerings—each on its proper day. ³⁸This is in addition to the Lord’s sabbaths and in addition to your presents, all the payments for solemn promises, and all the spontaneous gifts that you give to the Lord.

³⁹Note that on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the land’s crops, you will celebrate the Lord’s festival for seven days. The first day and the eighth day are days of special rest. ⁴⁰On the first day you must take fruit from majestic trees,^[a] palm branches, branches of leafy trees,^[b] and willows of the streams, and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. ⁴¹You will celebrate this festival to the Lord for seven days each year; this is a permanent rule throughout your future generations. You will celebrate it in the seventh month. ⁴²For seven days you must live in huts. Every citizen of Israel must live in huts ⁴³so that your future generations will know that I made the Israelites live in huts when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.