Back to Nehemiah 8

Nehemiah 8:14

They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

  • KJV King James Version

    And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And they found written in the Law, how that the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

View more translations →

Cross-references (6)

Passages linked to Nehemiah 8:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 23:34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days to Yahweh.
  • Leviticus 23:40-43 You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in temporary shelters for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
  • Deuteronomy 16:13-15 You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press. You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
  • Zechariah 14:16-19 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths. It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths. This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
  • Genesis 33:17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
  • John 7:2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

Cross-references from openbible.info (CC BY 4.0)

↑ Top

Explain this verse (9 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Neh 8:14 And they found written in the law…

Neh 8:14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:

Ver. 14. And they found written in the law] And therefore in nowise to be neglected, since there God had written for them great things, Hos 8:12; excellent things, Pro 22:20; marvellous things, Psa 119:18. There is a mountain of sense hanging upon every apex or tittle of it, say the Rabbis; who do, therefore, prescribe to their disciples not to write any letter of it but by a copy; not to read it but in a clean place; not to touch it but with the right hand; not to carry it about him but next his heart, &c. (Schickard).

Read full note →

That the children of Israel should dwell in booths] See Ezr 3:4, {See Trapp on "Ezr 3:4"} For this the law was dear, Lev 23:34 Deu 16:13. But this they had not so fully observed, sc. by dwelling in booths, till now that they were returned from Babylon, where they had been lately, and for a long time, strangers. This to profess and set forth was the intent of that least, and of this rite of it, of dwelling in booths or bowers. This is intimated in Neh 8:1.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They found, upon Ezra’s information, and their discourse with…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they found written in the law which the…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 14. In the feast of the seventh month]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Neh 8:14-15. And they found written in the law…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Feast of tabernacles had fallen into abeyance either…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 14. They found written — That is, in the…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. And they found written] The passages in the…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And they found written. The practice of "dwelling in…

↑ Top

Share