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Johannes Cornelis De Moor has suggested that there are links between Sukkot and the Ugaritic New Year festival, in particular the Ugaritic custom of erecting two rows of huts built of branches on the temple roof as temporary dwelling houses for the gods.

According to the Book of Zechariah, in the messianic era Sukkot will become a universal festival and all those nations who survive the plague that will afflict those who have attacked Jerusalem will go there to worship 'the King, the LORD of hosts', and to keep the feast of tabernacles..

Mark S Smith has stated that this section of the Book of Zechariah also points to Sukkot celebrating the 'divine capacity to supply rain' and that the natural elements of the festival are 'rain and the renewal of creation'.

Rashi in Parashat Pinchas (Numbers, 29:18) writes that the 70 bulls offered whenever the Jewish people are able to offer animal sacrifices, the sum total sacrificed throughout the seven days of the Sukkot festival, correspond to and benefit the 70 national-linguistic groups encompassing all of humanity.

Note that the original of the first paragraph was as follows. According to the Book of Zechariah, in the messianic era Sukkot will become a universal festival and all nations will make pilgrimages annually to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast there. Regardless of the outcome of the discussion that should be restored.