You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,
But Jacob journeyed to Sukkoth and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Sukkoth.
But we have lived in tents only and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and through the prophets I will bring destruction.
I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt. I will again make you to dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
Speak to the Israelites, saying: The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord.
You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling in their tents by their tribes, and the Spirit of God came on him.
“How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!
We know that if our earthly house, this tent, were to be destroyed, we have an eternal building of God in the heavens, a house not made with hands.