³⁵ There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them.^(A)

¹³ All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the Lord.

¹⁶ In addition, they distributed to the males three years old or more whose names were in the genealogical records^(A)—all who would enter the temple of the Lord to perform the daily duties of their various tasks, according to their responsibilities and their divisions.

²¹ There, by the Ahava Canal,^(A) I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey^(B) for us and our children, with all our possessions.

² So on the first day of the seventh month^(A) Ezra the priest brought the Law^(B) before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand.

³ He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate^(A) in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.