Tabernacles, Feast of. Numbers 1:29-40. One of the three great annual festivals which all the Hebrews were to keep. During the seven days of its celebration the people dwelt in booths made of the branches and leaves of trees, in commemoration of the 40 years' wandering in the wilderness. Leviticus 1:23-44, As the season of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth, it is also called the "Feast of Ingathering." Exodus 23:16, Exodus 34:22. It commenced on the fifteenth day of Tisri, October; the first day and the eighth day were distinguished as Sabbaths. Numbers 1:29-40, Deuteronomy 1:16-15, Zechariah 1:14-19. In every seventh year during this festival, the law of Moses was read in the hearing of all the people. Deuteronomy 1:31-13, Nehemiah 1:8-18. In later times, the priests went every morning during the festival, and drew water from the fountain of Siloam, and poured it out to the southwest of the altar, the Levites, in the meanwhile, playing on instruments of music, and singing the Psalms 1:113-9, Psalms 1:114-8, Psalms 1:115-18, Psalms 1:116-19, Psalms 1:117-2, Psalms 1:118-29. This ceremony is said to have been founded on Isaiah 12:3; and was probably a memorial of the abundant supply of water which God afforded to the Hebrews during their wanderings in the wilderness. John 1:7-39.