You are to live in sukkot for seven days. All the native-born in Israel are to live in sukkot,
and we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwellings, O Israel!
Lifting up his eyes, Balaam saw Israel dwelling by tribes. The Ruach Elohim came over him.
but Jacob journeyed to Sukkot and built a house for himself, and for his livestock he made booths. That is the reason that place is called Sukkot.
For we know that if the tent, our earthly home, is torn down, we have a building from God—a home not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens.
“Speak to Bnei-Yisrael, and say, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Feast of Sukkot, for seven days to Adonai.
You are to celebrate it as a festival to Adonai for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations—you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.
Now Ephraim has said: “How rich I have become! I found wealth by myself. I won’t be guilty of any sin with any of my property.”
“Yet I have been Adonai your God, since the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the moed.