Nehemiah 8:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

8 And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

² Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men and women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the seventh month.

³ And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book.