1 Esdras 9:48-50

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴⁸ Jeshua and Anniuth and Sherebiah, Jadinus, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maiannas and Kelita, Azariah and Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, taught the law of the Lord,^[a] at the same time explaining what was read.

⁴⁹ Then Attharates^[b] said to Ezra the chief priest and reader, and to the Levites who were teaching the multitude, and to all, ⁵⁰ ‘This day is holy to the Lord’—now they were all weeping as they heard the law—