'BOOTHS' — Jacob's first stop after crossing back into the land, west of the Jabbok in the Jordan valley. Genesis gives the name its own explanation: he 'built himself a house and made booths (sukkot) for his livestock, therefore the place is named Succoth' (33:17). The word is the same that names Israel's autumn festival of Sukkot, the Feast of BOOTHS, when the people live a week in temporary shelters remembering the wilderness. THIS Succoth reappears in the plain of the Jordan as a town in the days of Gideon (Judges 8) and of Solomon's bronze-casting (1 Kings 7:46). ⚠️ It is NOT the Succoth of the Exodus: the first station out of Egypt (Exodus 12:37) is a different place of the same common name — 'booths' was an ordinary toponym — lying in the eastern Nile Delta, some three hundred miles away.