¹³ The Feast of Booths. On the second day of the month, the family heads of all the people, together with the priests and the Levites, gathered around the scribe Ezra to study the words of the law. ¹⁴ And written in the law that the Lord had prescribed through Moses, they found that the Israelites were to live in booths^[a] during the feast of the seventh month.

¹⁵ In addition, they were to issue this proclamation and circulate it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go forth into the hills and bring branches of olive and wild olive trees, and of myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as the law prescribes.”