Nehemiah 8:1-3

Contemporary English Version

Ezra Reads God's Law to the People

8 ^1-2 On the first day of the seventh month,^[a] the people came together in the open area in front of the Water Gate. Then they asked Ezra, who was a teacher of the Law of Moses, to read to them from this Law that the Lord had given his people. Ezra the priest came with the Law and stood before the crowd of men, women, and the children who were old enough to understand. ³ From early morning till noon, he read the Law of Moses to them, and they listened carefully.