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Ezra studies a scroll with family heads, priests, and Levites beside piles of fresh leafy branches.
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Nehemiah 8:13-15

Branches for Booths

The Joy of Understanding · Nehemiah 8

Story guide: The leaders discover the command for the feast and send the people to gather branches for booths.

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13And on the second day, the heads of the fathers’ houses of all the people, the priests, and the Levites gathered to Ezra the scribe to gain insight into the words of the law.

14And they found it written in the Law that Yahweh had commanded through Moses that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast, in the seventh month.

15and that they should proclaim and spread the message through all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring branches of olive, oil tree, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

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