37 I have chosen these festivals as times when my people must come together for worship and when animals, grain, and wine are to be offered on the proper days.
38 These festivals must be celebrated in addition to the Sabbaths and the times when you offer special gifts or sacrifices to keep a promise or as a voluntary offering.
39 Remember to begin the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the seventh month after you have harvested your crops. Celebrate this festival for seven days in honour of me and don't do any work on the first day or on the day following the festival.
40 Pick the best fruit from your trees and cut leafy branches to use during the time of this joyous celebration in my honour.
41 I command you and all your descendants to celebrate this festival during the seventh month of each year.
42 For seven days every Israelite must live in a shelter,
43 so future generations will know that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.