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Then they had the Feast of Huts, as the law said they should do.[a] On each day of the feast they made the right number of burnt offerings. After that, they made burnt offerings every day, and also at the time of each new moon. They made the right sacrifices for the special festivals, when people met together to worship the Lord. They also offered special gifts that people had chosen to give to the Lord. They began to offer those burnt offerings on the first day of the seventh month. That was before they had started to build the temple.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4 See Leviticus 23:34.

Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles(A) with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day. After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon(B) sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred festivals of the Lord,(C) as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the Lord. On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.

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