The Feast of Tabernacles is a festival observed on the 15th day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar. During this time, people built temporary shelters (sukkahs) and lived in them for seven days to commemorate their wilderness journey.
Lev 23:34“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.Lev 23:35The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work.Lev 23:36For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the Lord. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work.Lev 23:37(“‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the Lord—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings—each day’s presentation on its own day.Lev 23:38These are in addition to the Lord’s Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the Lord.)Lev 23:39“‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the Lord for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest.Lev 23:40On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees—palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars—and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.Lev 23:41Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.
It is also called the Feast of Ingathering because it is a festival for storing grain, and the Feast of Booths because people dwell in booths.
Ex 23:16“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
John 7:2But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,