² So Ezra the priest ^(A)brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, ^(B)on the first day of the seventh month.

²⁴ “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In ^(A)the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, ^(B)a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.

⁷ For ^(A)the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people^[a] should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Offerings for the Feast of Trumpets

29 “On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. ^(A)It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,

²¹ For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, ^(A)for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

The Reading of the Law

⁹ Then Moses ^(A)wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, ^(B)who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. ¹⁰ And Moses commanded them, ^(C)“At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at ^(D)the Feast of Booths, ¹¹ when all Israel comes ^(E)to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, ^(F)you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. ^12 (G)Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, ¹³ and that their children, ^(H)who have not known it, ^(I)may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, ^(J)as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

¹⁸ “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, ^(A)he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, ^(B)approved by^[a] the Levitical priests.

⁷ In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, ^(A)to teach in the cities of Judah; ^8 (B)and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram. ⁹ And ^(C)they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the Lord with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.