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Following the written directions, they celebrated the Festival of Booths. Each day they sacrificed the required number of burnt offerings. After that, they sacrificed the daily burnt offerings, the offerings for the New Moon Festival and all the other holy festivals of the Lord, and all the freewill offerings brought to the Lord. They started to bring these burnt offerings to the Lord on the first day of the seventh month, even though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.

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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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