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THE BOOK OF
NEHEMIAH
CHAPTER 8
  14 And they found written in the law which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in abooths in the bfeast of the seventh month:

Footnotes
14a
This is the characteristic tradition of the feast of tabernacles.
Lev. 23: 43.
  43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in abooths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Neh. 8: 17 (16-17)
  17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made abooths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of bJeshua the son of cNun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
b
Zech. 14: 16.
  16 ¶ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to aworship the bKing, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the cfeast of dtabernacles.