Nehemiah 7:73–8:3

⁷³So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; ^zand when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.

8^*And all the people ^agathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the ^bwater gate; and they spake unto Ezra the ^cscribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. ²And Ezra the priest brought ^dthe law before the congregation both of men and women, and all ^†that could hear with understanding, upon ^ethe first day of the seventh month. ³And ^dhe read therein before the street that was before the ^bwater gate ^†from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.