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Leviticus 23:33-43

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The Feast of Booths

33Again Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 34Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On athe fifteenth of this seventh month is the bFeast of Booths for seven days to Yahweh. 35On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do ano laborious work of any kind. 36aFor seven days you shall bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh. On bthe eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh; it is a solemn assembly. You shall do no laborious work.
37These are athe appointed times of Yahweh which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to bring offerings by fire near to Yahwehburnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, beach day’s matter on its own day38besides those of the sabbaths of Yahweh and besides your gifts and besides all your 1votive and freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
39On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, awhen you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of Yahweh for seven days, with a 1rest on the first day and a 2rest on the eighth day. 40And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the 1foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God for seven days. 41You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42You shall 1live ain booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall 2live in booths, 43so that ayour generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”