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Nehemiah 8
In the seventh month all the people gather in the square before the Water Gate and Ezra reads the Law from morning until midday while the Levites explain it. The people weep, but are told to celebrate; they find the command to live in booths and keep the Feast of Tabernacles with great joy.
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Booths were built from olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm and thick-leaved branches.
Nehemiah 8:15 lists these branches for making booths in Ezra's time. The Law itself gives no building instructions.
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Booths stood on roofs, in courtyards, in the courts of God's house and in the squares of the Water Gate and the Gate of Ephraim.
Stated in Nehemiah 8:16.
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There was an open square before the Water Gate where the people gathered and built booths.
Stated in Nehemiah 8:1 and 8:16.
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Booths were built in the square of the Gate of Ephraim.
Stated in Nehemiah 8:16.
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Booths stood in the courts of God's house.
Stated in Nehemiah 8:16.
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Ezra read the Law daily throughout the feast, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly.
Stated in Nehemiah 8:18.