¹⁴ They discovered written in the law that the Lord had commanded through^[a] Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month, ¹⁵ and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message^[b] in all their cities and in Jerusalem: “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”

¹⁶ So the people went out and brought these things^[c] back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple^[d] of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.