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NE-8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one
man into the
street that [was] before the water gate; and they spake unto
Ezra the scribe
to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had
commanded to Israel.
NE-8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the
congregation both of
men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon
the first day
of the seventh month.
NE-8:3 And he read therein before the street that [was] before
the water 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.
NE-8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which
they had made
for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and
Anaiah, and
Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his
left hand,
Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana,
Zechariah,
[and] Meshullam.
NE-8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people;
(for he was
above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people
stood up:
NE-8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the
people answered,
Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their
heads, and
worshipped the LORD with [their] faces to the ground.
NE-8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub,
Shabbethai,
Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and
the Levites,
caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood]
in their
place.
NE-8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly,
and gave the
sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading.
NE-8:9 And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the
priest the
scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all
the people, This
day [is] holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For
all the people
wept, when they heard the words of the law.
NE-8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and
drink the
sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared:
for [this]
day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of
the LORD is
your strength.
NE-8:11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold
your peace, for
the day [is] holy; neither be ye grieved.
NE-8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink,
and to send
portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood
the words that
were declared unto them.
NE-8:13 And on the second day were gathered together the chief
of the fathers
of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the
scribe, even to
understand the words of the law.
NE-8:14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had
commanded by
Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the
feast of the
seventh month:
NE-8:15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their
cities, and in
Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive
branches, and pine
branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches
of thick trees,
to make booths, as [it is] written.
NE-8:16 So the people went forth, and brought [them], and made
themselves
booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their
courts, and in the
courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate,
and in the
street of the gate of Ephraim.
NE-8:17 And all the congregation of them that were come again
out of the
captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the
days of Jeshua
the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done
so. And there
was very great gladness.
NE-8:18 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day,
he read in the
book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and
on the eighth
day [was] a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
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