Nehemiah 7:73–8:1

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

^sAnd when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.

Ezra Reads the Law

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