Nehemiah 8:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² Then all the people went off to eat and drink, to distribute portions, and to celebrate with great rejoicing, since they had come to comprehend the meaning of what had been proclaimed to them.

¹³ The Feast of Booths. On the second day of the month, the family heads of all the people, together with the priests and the Levites, gathered around the scribe Ezra to study the words of the law. ¹⁴ And written in the law that the Lord had prescribed through Moses, they found that the Israelites were to live in booths^[a] during the feast of the seventh month.