Nehemiah 8
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Chapter 8
8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
8:17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.seventh month
i.e. October; Nehemiah 8:2 Nehemiah 8:14 .
for since the days of Jeshua
It is not meant that there had not been some formal observance of the feast of tabernacles (cf) 2 Chronicles 8:13 ; Ezekiel 3:4, but that the people had not dwelt in booths since Joshua's days.