¹⁴ And they found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in ^(A)booths^[a] during the feast of the seventh month,

³⁴ “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ^(A)‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord.

The Feast of Tabernacles Reviewed^(A)

^13 (B)“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress. ¹⁴ And ^(C)you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your ^[a]gates. ^15 (D)Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

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

^2 (A)Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

¹⁷ And Jacob journeyed to ^(A)Succoth, built himself a house, and made ^[a]booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called ^[b]Succoth.

The Nations Worship the King

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall ^(A)go up from year to year to ^(B)worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep ^(C)the Feast of Tabernacles. ^17 (D)And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. ¹⁸ If the family of ^(E)Egypt will not come up and enter in, ^(F)they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁹ This shall be the ^[a]punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.