You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths,
but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!
And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him,
But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.