Tabernacles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Succot, also known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, commemorates the 40 years the Jews spent in the desert after the exodus from Egypt and celebrates how God protected them under difficult desert conditions.
From BBC
The gun-emplacements are camouflaged with bushes against aerial observation, and look like a kind of military Feast of the Tabernacles.
From Literature
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Then, six months later, Jews celebrate Sukkot, or Tabernacles, and build huts to commemorate, according to one opinion in the Talmud, the ramshackle shelters in which Israelites dwelled as they followed God through the desert.
The annual weeklong summit is billed as the Feast of Tabernacles, the Christian term for the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which in biblical times was marked by a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.
From US News
To mark this month’s Feast of Tabernacles the government funded a march to Jerusalem billed as re-enacting the temple pilgrimage.
From Economist
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