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8:13-14 The following day, the leaders of the community, taking up their responsibility for studying the Law, realize that they are in the month of the Feast of Booths, or the feast of the seventh month (Lev. 23:33-43).

8:15 The people kept this feast by living in temporary dwellings made from branches to commemorate how they had lived in booths in the wilderness after God had brought them out of Egypt (Lev. 23:43).

8:17 from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun. "Jeshua" is another form of "Joshua." had not done so. Although the Feast of Booths had been celebrated on occasion (cf. 1 Kings 8:65; 2 Chron. 7:9; Ezra 3:4), it had apparently not been celebrated in this way (with such overwhelming joy, or in such unsettled conditions, or with all the people participating).

8:18 seven days. See Lev. 23:34. For the reading of the law at the Feast of Booths (every seven years), see Deut. 31:10-11.