וּבְי֨וֹם עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וּשְׁלֹשָׁה֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י שִׁלַּ֥ח אֶת־הָעָ֖ם לְאָהֳלֵיהֶ֑ם שְׂמֵחִים֙ וְט֣וֹבֵי לֵ֔ב עַל־הַטּוֹבָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לְדָוִ֣יד וְלִשְׁלֹמֹ֔ה וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עַמּֽוֹ׃
And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away unto their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel His people.
Ibn Ezra
in the morning you may return The Dissenters have said that one may return home to one’s land on the holiday. But we must not rely on our own understanding when deriving the Commandments — rather, we must rely on the Exegetes of the Torah. Indeed, although we do find “on the eighth day he dismissed the people” [I Kings 8: 66] — which was clearly a holiday — we see written elsewhere “on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he dismissed the people” [II Chronicles 7: 10]. Some say that the word “to their tents” in the former verse denotes their temporary tents, and that they did not return to their land until the workday.