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1 All the people gathered themselves together as
one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke
to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had
commanded to Israel. 2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the
assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the
first day of the seventh month. 3 He read therein before the wide place
that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the
presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the
ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood,
which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and
Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and
on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and
Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam. 5 Ezra opened the book in the
sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened
it, all the people stood up: 6 and Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God.
All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They
bowed their heads, and worshiped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.
7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin,
Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah,
and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stayed
in their place. 8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly;
and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. 9 Nehemiah,
who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who
taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Jehovah your God.
Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of
the law. 10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the
sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for today is holy
to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.”
11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying,
“Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be grieved.”
12 All the people went their way to eat, and to
drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had
understood the words that were declared to them. 13 On the second day were
gathered together the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the
priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the
words of the law. 14 They found written in the law, how that Jehovah had
commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the
feast of the seventh month; 15 and that they should publish and proclaim
in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get
olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm
branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
16 So the people went out, and brought them, and
made themselves booths, everyone on the roof of his house, and in their courts,
and in the courts of God’s house, and in the wide place of the water gate, and
in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate. 17 All the assembly of those who had
come again out of the captivity made booths, and lived in the booths; for since
the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not
done so. There was very great gladness. 18 Also day by day, from the first
day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast
seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the
ordinance.
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