Nehemiah 8:1-3

Revised Geneva Translation

8 And all the people assembled themselves together in the street that was before the Water Gate. And they asked Ezra the scribe if he would bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had Commanded, to Israel.

² And Ezra the Priest brought the Law before the Congregation, men and women and all who could hear and understand it, on the first day of the seventh month.

³ And he read from it, from morning until midday, in the street that was before the Water Gate, before men and women and those who understood it. And the ears of all the people listened to the Book of the Law.