Leviticus 23:40-43
23:40 On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees
– palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook – and you must rejoice before the
Lord your God for seven days.
23:41 You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the
Lord for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations;
you must celebrate it in the seventh month.
23:42 You must live in temporary shelters
for seven days; every native citizen in Israel must live in temporary shelters,
23:43 so that your future generations may know that I made the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the
Lord your God.’”
Ezra 3:4
3:4 They observed the Festival of Temporary Shelters
as required
and offered the proper number of
daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day.
Nehemiah 8:15-17
8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message
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.”
8:16 So the people went out and brought these things back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.
8:17 So all the assembly which had returned from the exile constructed temporary shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy.
Zechariah 14:16-19
14:16 Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles.
14:17 But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.
14:18 If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain – instead there will be the kind of plague which the Lord inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
14:19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
John 7:2
7:2 Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles
was near.