We have arrived at the final Appointed Time of the year on Yah’s calendar, the Feast of Sukkot or Feast of Tabernacles! This time is often called The Season of our Joy, as it is a time to gather and celebrate all of Yah’s goodness and faithfulness to us in the past, present, and future!

There is so much to love about Sukkot, and we look forward to it all year! This year, we are hosting a “Soup-kot” party one of the evenings, where everyone is invited to bring a pot of soup to share, and we’ll sit around the campfire fellowshipping, worshipping, and eventually making s’mores. Another night, we are having a cookout where we’ll roast hot dogs, play backyard games, and then sit around the campfire again. My son used to call Sukkot the Feast of Marshmallows when he was little because his favorite part was the campfire every night. 😂 Last year, our family did two Psalm 119 concerts for different gatherings in our area. This year, we’re only doing one concert on the final night of Sukkot, so that will be fun! Our concert theme this year is For Such a Time as This: A Walk Through the Biblical Year, and we’ll be singing songs from my first album.

There are four main components of Sukkot in the Torah: sacrificial offerings to YHWH, dwelling in temporary shelters, days of rest with holy gatherings on the first and last days, and gathering fruit and branches to include in the joyful celebration. We’re given so much room for creativity when it comes to keeping those commands! I would absolutely love to hear about your family’s Sukkot traditions in the comments!

Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles Script and Playlist

As with the script I wrote for Yom Kippur, I learned so much as I researched and wrote this script for this year! I thought we had done some sort of script a few years ago, but I couldn’t find any drafts of it on my computer, so I started this one from scratch. It’s longer than most of my other scripts for Biblical feasts, partly because I included the song lyrics in the script since we don’t usually have a projector going when we’re sitting out in our sukkah or around the campfire. For the songs I included in the script, I went with oldies and ones that work well a cappella or with simple guitar accompaniment while sitting around the campfire. I also made it easy to skip the songs and keep going with the script if you don’t want to sing while you’re doing it. In my YouTube playlist for Sukkot, I’ve put the songs in the script at the top of the playlist, but then I’ve included lots more songs that fit the themes of Sukkot so you can have it playing throughout the feast.

A unique thing about this script for Sukkot is that I’ve included an option to stop at the bottom of page 7 and save the rest for the last day of Sukkot if you plan to have a gathering then or if shorter bits work better for your kids. We plan to do the whole thing all at once in both of our gatherings since they are with different people.

This script follows the same format I used in the scripts for the other Biblical feasts, including a Host, a Hostess, and Readers 1-16. As always, feel free to divvy those out however it works best for you, and feel free to make the script your own and change the wording or anything else you want. This is to serve you, not something for you to serve!

Here are three versions of the script.

Editable Word Doc

Editable Pages File

Non-editable PDF File

As with all my other scripts, I make no promises that the Word and Pages files will hold the formatting, so to see how I intended it to look, check the PDF file. I print them double-sided with the short-edge binding setting and then fold them in half. As with the others, I’ve included a coloring sheet for the cover. This one is from Seeking Scripture.

I hope this is all helpful for you, and as I said above, I’d love to hear how you and your family celebrate Sukkot! Here are a few more pictures of our family celebrating Sukkot through the years! It’s so fun to see how it’s been both the same and different each year!