Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

当时犹太人的住棚节近了。

这时犹太人的住棚节近了。

这时犹太人的住棚节近了。

犹太人的住棚节快到了，

犹太人的住棚节快到了，

犹太人的住棚节快到了，

當時猶太人的住棚節近了。

這時猶太人的住棚節近了。

這時猶太人的住棚節近了。

猶太人的住棚節快到了，

猶太人的住棚節快到了，

那時猶太人的節期、住棚節、近了。

猶太人的住棚節快到了，

猶太人之張幕節伊邇、

猶太人張幕節伊邇、

猶太人居廬節近矣、

時猶太人之立帳節伊邇、

But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,

The Jewish Feast of Booths was near.

Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand.

But soon it was time for the Jewish Festival of Shelters,

The Jewish Festival of Shelters was near.

Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.

Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.

The Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,

Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.

Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the LORD who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles.But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD who rules over all, they will get no rain.If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain– instead there will be the kind of plague which the LORD inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

“ Tell the Israelites,‘ On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days to the LORD.On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work.For seven days you must present a gift to the LORD. On the eighth day there is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must present a gift to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly day; you must not do any regular work.“‘ These are the appointed times of the LORD that you must proclaim as holy assemblies to present a gift to the LORD– burnt offering, grain offering, sacrifice, and drink offerings, each day according to its regulation,besides the Sabbaths of the LORD and all your gifts, votive offerings, and freewill offerings which you must give to the LORD.“‘ On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the LORD for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees– palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook– and you must rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the LORD for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.You must live in temporary shelters for seven days; every native citizen in Israel must live in temporary shelters,so that your future generations may know that I made the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”

“‘ On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the LORD for seven days.You must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs each one year old, all of them without blemish.Their grain offering must be of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil, three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah for each of the two rams,and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs,along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.“‘ On the second day you must offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.“‘ On the third day you must offer eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.“‘ On the fourth day you must offer ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.“‘ On the fifth day you must offer nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.“‘ On the sixth day you must offer eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.“‘ On the seventh day you must offer seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.“‘ On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,and with their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

“ You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord GOD.

You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, for he will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; so you will indeed rejoice!Three times a year all your males must appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.

They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem:“ Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”So the people went out and brought these things back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.So all the assembly which had returned from the exile constructed temporary shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy.Ezra read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly as was required.

On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for seven more days.On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people home. They left happy and contented because of the good the LORD had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.

They observed the Festival of Temporary Shelters as required and offered the proper number of daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day.

At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the LORD our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south.

All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival in the month Ethanim( the seventh month).