Prescriptions and Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Now on the fifteenth day of the same month, when the season changes to winter, he [Moses] enjoins each household to pitch tents, in apprehension of the cold and for protection at that time of year. And when they would reach their homeland, arriving in the city that, by virtue of the Temple, they would consider their metropolis, they would at that time celebrate a festival for eight days, offering whole burnt offerings and thanksgiving offerings to God, carrying in their hands myrtle branches and willow and a bough of palm, along with the citron.