Leviticus 23:33-44

Evangelical Heritage Version

The Festival of Shelters

³³ The Lord told Moses ³⁴ to tell the people of Israel this:

Beginning on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, celebrate the Festival of Shelters^[a] for seven days for the Lord. ³⁵ On the first day proclaim a holy convocation. You shall not do any work for your regular occupation. ³⁶ For seven days you shall bring an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day proclaim a holy convocation for yourselves, and you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord. This is a closing ceremony. You shall not do any work for your regular occupation.

³⁷ These are the appointed times of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations for the presentation of offerings made by fire to the Lord—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings as commanded for each day. ³⁸ Offer these in addition to the Sabbath offerings of the Lord, in addition to your personal wave offerings, in addition to all your offerings to fulfill a vow, and in addition to all your voluntary^[b] offerings that you give to the Lord.

³⁹ Beginning exactly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, when you go to celebrate the festival of the Lord for seven days as a pilgrim, there shall be a complete sabbath rest on the first day and a complete sabbath rest on the eighth day. ⁴⁰ On the first day you shall select for yourselves fruit from splendid trees, branches of palm trees, boughs from leafy trees, and willows from by the stream—and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. ⁴¹ Celebrate the festival for the Lord as a pilgrim for seven days each year. This is a permanent regulation throughout your generations. In the seventh month you shall celebrate the festival as a pilgrim. ⁴² You shall live in temporary shelters for seven days—every native-born person in Israel shall live in shelters— ⁴³ so that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel live in shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

⁴⁴ That is what Moses said about the appointed times of the Lord to the people of Israel.