³³ The Lord said to Moses: ³⁴ Say 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. ³⁵ The first day is a holy occasion. You must not do any job-related work. ³⁶ For 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.

³⁷ These 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. ³⁸ This 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.

³⁹ Note 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. ⁴⁰ On 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. ⁴¹ You 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. ⁴² For seven days you must live in huts. Every citizen of Israel must live in huts ⁴³ so 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.

Festival of Booths

¹³ Once you have collected the food and drink you need, perform the Festival of Booths for seven days. ¹⁴ Celebrate your festival: you, your sons, your daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites, the immigrants, the orphans, and the widows who live in your cities. ¹⁵ Seven days you must perform the festival for the Lord your God in the location the Lord selects because the Lord your God will bless you in all you do and in all your work. You will be overjoyed.

¹⁶ Three times a year every male among you must appear before the presence of the Lord your God in the location he will select: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. They must not appear before the Lord’s presence empty-handed. ¹⁷ Each one should have his gift in hand, in precise measure with the blessing the Lord your God gives you.