And they celebrated it for eight days with rejoicing, in the manner of the feast of booths, remembering how not long before, during the feast of booths, they had been wandering in the mountains and caves like wild animals: For the feast of booths, see the comments on 2Macc 1.9. Good News Bible has one long sentence for this verse, and some translators will find this helpful. But others may wish to break it up into two sentences as Contemporary English Version does. Here is a model similar to the one in Contemporary English Version:

• They celebrated the festival [or, fiesta] joyously for eight days, and it was just like the Festival of Shelters. In fact, while they were celebrating, they kept remembering the recent Festival of Shelters when the foreigners forced them to roam through the hills and live in caves like wild animals.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Maccabees. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2011. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.