{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "returned-booths",
  "era": "exile-return",
  "order": 269,
  "title": "The people celebrate the Feast of Booths",
  "group": "renewed-community",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Seventh-month festival · Following the public reading"
  },
  "pin": [
    35.234167,
    31.776667
  ],
  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "openbible-a15257a",
  "summary": "As the leaders study the law, they find the command to live in booths during the seventh-month feast. The people gather branches and make shelters on rooftops, in courtyards and in public squares. Daily reading accompanies the seven-day celebration and the final assembly.",
  "context": "The description of exceptional celebration since Joshua should not be read as a denial of the earlier observance recorded in Ezra 3. The chapter emphasizes the character of this observance and its great joy. Joshua here is the earlier leader of Israel, not the post-exilic priest Jeshua.",
  "question": "How do temporary shelters and repeated reading help the returned community remember its story?",
  "locationNote": "Jerusalem is an identified city. The marker locates the city, not a precisely verified house, gate, platform or section of ancient wall.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Nehemiah 8:13–18",
      "range": [
        16008013,
        16008018
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah%208%3A13%E2%80%9318&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Nehemiah",
          "chapter": 8,
          "verse": 13,
          "text": "On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law."
        },
        {
          "book": "Nehemiah",
          "chapter": 8,
          "verse": 14,
          "text": "And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Nehemiah",
          "chapter": 8,
          "verse": 15,
          "text": "and that they should proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Nehemiah",
          "chapter": 8,
          "verse": 16,
          "text": "And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim."
        },
        {
          "book": "Nehemiah",
          "chapter": 8,
          "verse": 17,
          "text": "The whole assembly that had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated like this. And there was great rejoicing."
        },
        {
          "book": "Nehemiah",
          "chapter": 8,
          "verse": 18,
          "text": "Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5016013,
        5016015
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Moses calls the whole community to rejoice at the Feast of Tabernacles.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 16:13–15",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2016%3A13%E2%80%9315&version=BSB"
    },
    {
      "range": [
        3023039,
        3023043
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Leviticus explains the booths as remembrance of Israel’s life after the Exodus.",
      "reference": "Leviticus 23:39–43",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2023%3A39%E2%80%9343&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "openbible-a15257a",
      "name": "Jerusalem",
      "coordinate": [
        35.234167,
        31.776667
      ],
      "kind": "City",
      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "mapPeriod": "persian-judah",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/exile-return.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Exile & Return",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=returned-booths",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/returned-booths/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/returned-booths/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/returned-booths/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "0e15733e7c855c77"
}