Nehemiah 8:14 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁴ And they found written in the law,––that Yahweh gave command through Moses, that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths, during the festival of the seventh month;

¹⁷ But, Jacob, brake up towards Succoth, and built for himself a house,––for his cattle, made he places of shelter, for which cause, the name of the place was called, Succoth.

³⁴ Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying:––On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, shall be the festival of booths, for seven days, unto Yahweh.

⁴⁰ So then ye shall take you, on the first day, boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm–trees, and boughs of thick trees, and poplars of the ravine,––and shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, seven days. ⁴¹ So shall ye celebrate it as a festival unto Yahweh, seven days in the year,––a statute age–abiding, to your generations. In the seventh month, shall ye celebrate it; ⁴² In booths, shall ye dwell seven days; ––All the home–born in Israel, shall dwell in booths: ⁴³ To the end that your generations may know, that, in booths, made I the sons of Israel to dwell, when I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,––I––Yahweh, am your God.

¹³ The festival of booths, shalt thou keep for thyself, seven days,––when thou hast gathered in out of thy threshing–floor, and out of thy wine–vat. ¹⁴ And thou shalt rejoice, in thy festival,––thou, and thy son and thy daughter, and thy servant and thy handmaid, and the Levite and the sojourner, and the fatherless and the widow, who are within thy gates. ¹⁵ Seven days, shalt thou keep festival unto Yahweh thy God, in the place which Yahweh shall choose,––for Yahweh thy God, will bless thee, in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands,––therefore shalt thou do nothing but rejoice.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass, that, as for every one that is left out of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, that they shall come up, from year to year, to bow down to the king, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the festival of booths. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass that––whoso shall not come up out of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem, to bow down to the king, Yahweh of hosts,––there shall not, on them, be any rain. ¹⁸ And, if the family of Egypt shall not come up, and shall not enter in, upon whom there falleth none, then shall smite them the plague wherewith Yahweh, did plague, the nations, because they came not up to celebrate the festival of booths. ¹⁹ This, shall be the punishment of Egypt,––and the punishment of all the nations, when they come not up to celebrate the festival of booths.

² But the feast of the Jews was near, that of the pitching of tents.