Study Desk

They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded through Moses that the sons of Israel ^(r)should live in booths during the feast of the seventh month.

^[g](s)So they proclaimed and circulated a proclamation in all their cities and ^(t)in Jerusalem, saying, "^(u)Go out to the hills, and bring olive branches and ^[h]wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches and branches of other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written."

So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each ^(v)on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at ^(w)the Water Gate and in the square at ^(x)the Gate of Ephraim.