Nehemiah 7:73-8:1

English Standard Version

⁷³ So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns.

^(A)And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.

Ezra Reads the Law

8 And all the people gathered as one man into the square before ^(B)the Water Gate. And they told ^(C)Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel.