Nehemiah 8:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, Go to the mountain and bring olive branches, pine branches, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They were to proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: 'Go out to the hill country and bring branches of olive trees, wild olive trees, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pi branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    and that they should publish{H8085} and proclaim{H5674} in all their cities,{H5892} and in Jerusalem,{H3389} saying,{H559} Go forth{H3318} unto the mount,{H2022} and fetch{H935} olive{H2132} branches,{H5929} and branches{H6086} of wild olive,{H8081} and myrtle{H1918} branches,{H6086} and palm{H8558} branches,{H5929} and branches{H5929} of thick{H5687} trees,{H6086} to make{H6213} booths,{H5521} as it is written.{H3789}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And that they should publish{H8085}{(H8686)} and proclaim{H5674}{(H8686)}{H6963} in all their cities{H5892}, and in Jerusalem{H3389}, saying{H559}{(H8800)}, Go forth{H3318}{(H8798)} unto the mount{H2022}, and fetch{H935}{(H8685)} olive{H2132} branches{H5929}, and pine{H8081} branches{H6086}{H5929}, and myrtle{H1918} branches{H5929}, and palm{H8558} branches{H5929}, and branches{H5929} of thick{H5687} trees{H6086}, to make{H6213}{(H8800)} booths{H5521}, as it is written{H3789}{(H8803)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And so they caused it be declared and proclamed in all their cities, & at Ierusalem, sayenge: Go vp vnto ye mout and fetch Olyue braunches, Pynebraunches, Myrtbraunches, Palmebraunches, & braunches of thicketrees, to make bothes as it is wrytten.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And that they shoulde cause it to bee declared and proclaimed in all their cities, and in Ierusalem, saying, Go forth vnto the mount, and bring oliue branches, and pine branches, & branches of myrtus, and palme branches, & branches of thicke trees, to make boothes, as it is written.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And that they should cause it to be declared and proclaymed in all their cities, and throughout Hierusalem, saying: Go foorth vnto the mount and fetch Olyue brauches, Pine braunches, Myrtel braunches, Palme braunches, & braunches of the thicke tree, to make boothes, as it is written.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as [it is] written.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mountain, and get olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and that they proclaim and cause to pass over all their cities, (and in Jerusalem,) saying, `Go ye out to the mount, and bring leaves of the olive, and leaves of the oil tree, and leaves of the myrtle, and leaves of the palms, and leaves of thick trees, to make booths as it is written.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem:“Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 23:4 : 4 These are the feasts of the LORD, holy gatherings, which you shall proclaim in their seasons.
  • Lev 23:40 : 40 And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
  • Deut 16:16 : 16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
  • Judg 9:48-49 : 48 And Abimelech went up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, cut down a branch from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder, and said to the people with him, What you have seen me do, hurry and do likewise. 49 And everyone likewise cut down his own branch, followed Abimelech, put them against the stronghold, and set it on fire; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
  • Matt 21:1 : 1 And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, near the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
  • John 12:13 : 13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna! Blessed is the King of Israel who comes in the name of the Lord.
  • Rev 7:9 : 9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no one could number, of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and languages, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palm branches in their hands;
  • Gen 8:11 : 11 And the dove came to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

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  • Neh 8:16-18
    3 verses
    85%

    16 So the people went out and brought them, and made themselves booths, each one on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the Water Gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

    17 And all the congregation of those who had returned from captivity made booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great gladness.

    18 Also day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

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

  • Lev 23:39-43
    5 verses
    81%

    39 Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

    40 And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

    41 And you shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

    42 You shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are native Israelites shall dwell in booths.

    43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

  • 1 And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one person to Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 10:7-9
    3 verses
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    7 And they issued a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather at Jerusalem;

    8 and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, all his property would be forfeited, and he himself would be separated from the congregation of those who had been carried away.

    9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.

  • 1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one person in the street before the Water Gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

  • 34 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.

  • 13 You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after you have gathered in your grain and your wine:

  • 16 And it shall come to pass, that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

  • 12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days:

  • 8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches from the trees, and spread them in the way.

  • 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.

  • 8 The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign over us.

  • 13 Even according to a certain schedule every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

  • 9 And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar for seven days, and the feast for seven days.

  • 2 Now the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.

  • 5 Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

  • 8 So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading.

  • 15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys, as well as bringing in wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day they sold provisions.

  • 8 And a very great multitude spread their garments on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

  • 13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna! Blessed is the King of Israel who comes in the name of the Lord.

  • 10 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, every man shall call his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.

  • 35 And to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD:

  • 10 And the trees said to the fig tree, You come and reign over us.

  • 12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

  • 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are near to come.

  • 23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they dwell.

  • 21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go quickly to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

  • 15 Seven days you shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.

  • 3 Therefore, all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast in the seventh month.

  • 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it in such a way for a long time as it was written.

  • 5 What will you do in the appointed day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

  • 9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.

  • 35 And there shall be a knob under two branches of the same piece, and a knob under two branches of the same piece, and a knob under two branches of the same piece, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand.

  • 2 In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and lovely for those who have escaped of Israel.

  • 37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

  • 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

  • 19 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

  • 11 It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.

  • 7 Those who dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.