Given by: the angel of the presence to Moses on Sinai, completing the account of Abraham's first feast of tabernacles — palm branches, goodly fruit, and seven daily circuits of the altar in praise. Given to: Moses, as the feast's inner heart: comprehensive, joyful thanks.

Circling an altar with branches while singing praise gave gratitude a public, physical form — in the ancient world thanksgiving was something a body did, not merely a sentiment a mind held.

And Abraham took branches of palm trees, and the fruit of goodly trees, and every day going round the altar with the branches seven times a day in the morning, he praised and gave thanks to his God for all things in joy.

Every day of the feast, with branches in hand and circuits round the altar, Abraham praised and gave thanks to his God for all things in joy — thanksgiving without gaps.

Jubilees 16:31

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour