Leviticus 23 commands the seventh-month Feast of Booths as a recurring covenant festival. Ezra 3 reports the returned exiles restoring the altar and keeping the Feast of Tabernacles “as it is written,” showing that restoration to the land included restoration of Torah-governed worship rather than merely political or geographic return.

The restored altar intentionally reconnects postexilic worship with Torah’s sacrificial calendar. The restored community is deliberately worshiping by the numbered festival schedule of Torah rather than creating a new postexilic sacrificial calendar.

Ezra restores the altar and the repeated sacrificial system after exile; Hebrews later interprets that institution by contrasting the standing priest who offers repeatedly with Christ’s single, effective sacrifice. The connection is explicit New Testament interpretation of the sacrificial order, not a quotation of Ezra 3 itself.