Nehemiah 8:13-15

Lexham English Bible

Festival of Booths

¹³ On the second day the heads of the families^[a] of all the people, the priests, and the Levites gathered together to Ezra the scribe to study the words of the law.^{[b] 14} They found written in the law,^[c] which Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the Israelites^[d] should live in booths during the festival of the seventh month, ¹⁵ and that they should proclaim and give voice in all of their cities in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill and bring olive tree branches, olive oil wood branches, myrtle shrub branches, palm tree branches, and other leafy tree branches to make booths, as it is written.”