Nehemiah 8:13-15

International Standard Version

The Festival of Tents is Reinstituted^(A)

¹³ The next day, the heads of the families of all the people were gathered together, along with the priests and the descendants of Levi, to meet with^[a] Ezra the scribe in order to understand the words of the Law. ¹⁴ They found written in the Law that the Lord had commanded through Moses that the Israelis were to live in tents^[b] during the festival scheduled for the seventh month. ¹⁵ So they circulated a proclamation throughout their towns and in Jerusalem. It said, “Go out to the hill country and bring back olive branches, wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of mature trees, in order to set up tents, as has been written.”