Nehemiah 8:1

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At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

² On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand.

³ So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

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BSB: At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
KJV: 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.
WEB: All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
ASV: And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded to Israel.
DARBY: all the people gathered together as one man to the open place that was before the water-gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded Israel.
BLB: And all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that [was] in front of the Water Gate; and they said to Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which YHWH had commanded for Israel.

ÅB: Og alt folket samlet seg som en mann på plassen foran Vannporten; og de ba Esras, den skriftlærde, om å hente boken med Mose lov, som Herren hadde gitt Israel.
OTB: Alle folket samlet seg som én mann på plassen foran Vannporten, og de ba Esra, den skriftlærde, om å hente Mose lovbok, som Herren hadde gitt til Israel.
B1930: Og alt folket samlet sig som en mann på plassen foran Vannporten; og de bad Esras, den skriftlærde, om å hente boken med Mose lov, som Herren hadde gitt Israel.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezra 7:6
this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.
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2 Chronicles 34:15
And Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan.
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Nehemiah 3:26
and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.
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Matthew 13:52
Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
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Ezra 3:1–13
By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
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Ezra 7:11
This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:
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Nehemiah 8:4–9
Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for this occasion. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, and at his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
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Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
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