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Upon the fifteenth day of the same month, when the season of the
year is changing for winter, the law enjoins us to pitch tabernacles in
every one of our houses, so that we preserve ourselves from the cold of
that time of the year; as also that when we should arrive at our own country,
and come to that city which we should have then for our metropolis, because
of the temple therein to be built, and keep a festival for eight days,
and offer burnt-offerings, and sacrifice thank-offerings, that we should
then carry in our hands a branch of myrtle, and willow, and a bough of
the palm-tree, with the addition of the pome citron: That the burnt-offering
on the first of those days was to be a sacrifice of thirteen bulls, and
fourteen lambs, and fifteen rams, with the addition of a kid of the goats,
as an expiation for sins; and on the following days the same number of
lambs, and of rams, with the kids of the goats; but abating one of the
bulls every day till they amounted to seven only. On the eighth day all
work was laid aside, and then, as we said before, they sacrificed to God
a bullock, a ram, and seven lambs, with a kid of the goats, for an expiation
of sins. And this is the accustomed solemnity of the Hebrews, when they
pitch their tabernacles.
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