5. Then, on the day that the temple had been polluted by the foreigners, it happened on the same day that the purification was accomplished, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, which was Kislev.
6. And they celebrated for eight days with joy, in the manner of the Feast of Tabernacles, remembering that, a little time before, they had celebrated the solemn days of the Feast of Tabernacles in mountains and caves, in the manner of wild beasts.
7. Because of this, they now preferred to carry boughs and green branches and palms, for him who had prospered the cleansing of his place.
8. And they decreed a common precept and decree, that all the people of the Jews should keep those days every year.