³⁴ “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh^(A) month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles^(B) begins, and it lasts for seven days. ³⁵ The first day is a sacred assembly;^(C) do no regular work.^{(D) 36} For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly^(E) and present a food offering to the Lord.^(F) It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.

³⁵ “‘On the eighth day hold a closing special assembly^(A) and do no regular work.

The Festival of Tabernacles^(A)

¹³ Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor^(B) and your winepress.^{(C) 14} Be joyful^(D) at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.

¹⁸ Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read^(A) from the Book of the Law^(B) of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation,^(C) there was an assembly.^(D)

The Healing at the Pool

5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.