Here the Hebrews are directed to cut and gather various types of greenery. This act symbolizes abundance and fertility. This accounts for the reason this feast is elsewhere called the feast of Harvest (Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22). These cuttings also have a practical purpose because the Hebrews are to make huts out of them in order to live in the booths for the seven days of the feast
40 Vous prendrez, le premier jour, du fruit des beaux arbres, des branches de palmiers, des rameaux d'arbres touffus et des saules de rivière; et vous vous réjouirez devant l'Eternel, votre Dieu, pendant sept jours.