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Rh your dwellings. It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

And the spoke unto Moses, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying:

On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the. On the first day shall be a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work. Seven days ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the ; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the ; it is a day of solemn assembly; ye shall do no manner of servile work.

These are the appointed seasons of the, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to bring an offering made by fire unto the , a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day; beside the sabbaths of the , and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto the.

Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of the seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto the seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths; that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the your God.

And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the appointed seasons of the.

And the spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it from evening to morning before the continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the continually.

And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before the. And thou shalt put pure frankincense with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering made by fire unto the. Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the continually; it is from the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the made by fire, a perpetual due.'

And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an