15 and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters”—as it is written.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 8:15 See Lev. 23:37-40.

13 And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols(A) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak(B)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.(C)

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28 When I brought them into the land(A) I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that aroused my anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.(B)

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