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Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
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Verse 2. This was the festival of Tabernacles, on which the Jews made tents, in imitation of those which were their habitations during their sojournment in the wilderness, for forty years. See Leviticus 23:34. The Jews called it a festival day; though it consisted not of one, but of many days successively. Saint Augustine, tract. 28. in Joan.
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