Josué 1:9 Halajá: Abudarham

On the night of the ninth [day of the holiday], we pray [the same prayers] as on the night of the eighth [day]. And we recite kiddush and [include the blessing over] time (shehechiyanu). And on the morrow, we take out three Torah scrolls. Five [congregants] read the Parashah of Zot HaBerakhah from the first one. [The reader] reads with the [first] four until, "while you tread on their high places" (Deuteronomy 33:29). And then he goes back with the fifth - who is the last one - from the beginning of Zot HaBerakhah until, "in the eyes of all of Israel" (the last verse in the Parashah and in the Torah). And the reason for this Parashah [being read on this day] is based on King Solomon having blessed Israel on the eighth day of the festival, as it is stated (I Kings 8:14), "and he blessed all of the congregation of Israel, etc." That is why we read the blessing that Moshe blessed Israel on the ninth day, about which there is a doubt that it is the eighth day. And in the second [Torah scroll], the reader begins [Parashat] Bereishit until, "which God had created to make" (Genesis 2:2). And in the third [Torah scroll], he reads the final selection (maftir) like yesterday; and he concludes (recites the haftara) with the beginning of Joshua, "And it was after the death of Moshe," until, "for the Lord, your God, is with with wherever you shall go" (Joshua 1:9).