Nehemiah 8:12-14

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹² All the people went away to eat, to drink, ^(A)to send portions and to ^[a]celebrate a great festival, ^(B)because they understood the words which had been made known to them.

Feast of Booths Restored

¹³ Then on the second day the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests and the Levites were gathered to Ezra the scribe that they might gain insight into the words of the law. ¹⁴ They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded through Moses that the sons of Israel ^(C)should live in booths during the feast of the seventh month.