I command you and all your descendants to celebrate this festival during the seventh month of each year.
On each of the first seven days of the festival, Ezra read to the people from God's Law. Then on the eighth day, everyone gathered for worship, just as the Law had said they must.
I am your God, and I forbid you to eat any new grain or anything made from it until you have brought these offerings. This law will never change.
Pick the best fruit from your trees and cut leafy branches to use during the time of this joyous celebration in my honour.
For seven days every Israelite must live in a shelter,
Beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and continuing for seven days, everyone must celebrate the Festival of Shelters in honour of me.