John 1:49
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49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God;[a] you are the King of Israel.”(A)
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Leviticus 23:40
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40 On the first day you shall gather fruit of majestic trees, branches of palms, and boughs[a] of leafy trees and valley willows. Then for a week you shall make merry before the Lord, your God.
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- 23:40–43 Fruit…branches…boughs: the fruit and/or foliage from these trees is to be gathered, but it is not said how they are used. The command to make merry suggests they may have been used in a procession or even circumambulation of the altar (cf. Ps 26:6). Later tradition understood these prescriptions as referring to making the booths out of the foliage (Neh 8:15).
1 Maccabees 13:51
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51 On the twenty-third day of the second month,[a] in the one hundred and seventy-first year, the Jews entered the citadel with shouts of praise, the waving of palm branches, the playing of harps and cymbals and lyres, and the singing of hymns and canticles, because a great enemy of Israel had been crushed.(A)
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- 13:51 The twenty-third day of the second month: June 3, 141 B.C.
2 Maccabees 10:7
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7 Carrying rods entwined with leaves,[a] beautiful branches and palms, they sang hymns of grateful praise to him who had successfully brought about the purification of his own place.
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Revelation 7:9
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Triumph of the Elect. 9 After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches[a] in their hands.
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