13 The next day, all the clan leaders, and the priests and Levites, met with Ezra the scribe to study the instructions on the scroll. 14 They discovered that it was written in the instructions that Yahweh had given through Mosheh, that the Israelis should live in temporary shelters during the celebration in their seventh month (our September-October).[ref] 15 They should publicly proclaim in Yerushalem and in all their towns that the people should go into the hills and bring back branches from olive or wild olive trees, myrtle or palm trees, and/or other leafy trees to make shelters as it’s written.

16 So the people went out and brought back branches to make shelters for themselves on their roofs or in their courtyards, or in the temple courtyard or in the plazas near the Water Gate and the Efraim Gate. 17 Then the whole assembly of people who’d come back from captivity made shelters and lived in them for one week. The Israelis hadn’t done that since the time of Yehoshua’s leadership, and they did it with a lot of celebration. 18 Ezra read aloud from the scroll of God’s instructions each day of the seven days of celebration, then on the eighth day they all gathered together as per the instructions.