Nehemiah 8:1-2

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

8 Then all the people gathered together as one man in the broad place before the Water Gate; and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had given to Israel.

² And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of both men and women and all who could hear with understanding, on the first of the seventh month.