Nehemiah 8:16-18

New King James Version

¹⁶ Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the ^(A)roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the ^(B)Water Gate ^(C)and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ So the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made ^[a]booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very ^(D)great gladness. ¹⁸ Also ^(E)day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. And they kept the feast ^(F)seven days; and on the ^(G)eighth day there was a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed manner.