Nehemiah 8:13-15

New English Translation

¹³ On the second day of the month the family leaders^[a] met with^[b] Ezra the scribe, together with all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to consider the words of the law. ¹⁴ They discovered written in the law that the Lord had commanded through^[c] Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month, ¹⁵ and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message^[d] in all their cities and in Jerusalem: “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”