Booths upon the roof of his house; for the houses there were made flat; of which See Poole on "Deuteronomy 22:8". In their courts, belonging to their own houses; for these might be any where in the open air. In the street of the gate of Ephraim; that gate of the city which led to the tribe of Ephraim.
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Nehemiah 8:16
16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.