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They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had given to Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could hear with understanding. This was on the first day of the seventh month. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>He read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>The scribe Ezra stood on a wooden platform that had been made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Then Ezra blessed the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. Then they bowed their heads and worshiped the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> with their faces to the ground. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12501a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> helped the people to understand the law, while the people remained in their places. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions of them to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; and do not be grieved, for the joy of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is your strength.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Festival of Booths Celebrated</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>On the second day the heads of ancestral houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to the scribe Ezra in order to study the words of the law. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>And they found it written in the law, which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had commanded by Moses, that the people of Israel should live in booths<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12508b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> during the festival of the seventh month, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>and that they should publish and proclaim in all their towns and in Jerusalem as follows, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12509c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> as it is written.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>So the people went out and brought them, and made booths<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12510d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> for themselves, each on the roofs of their houses, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12511e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and lived in them; for from the days of Jeshua son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the book of the law of God. They kept the festival seven days; and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 8:7">Nehemiah 8:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>1 Esdras 9.48 Vg: Heb <i>and the Levites</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 8:14">Nehemiah 8:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>tabernacles</i>; Heb <i>succoth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 8:15">Nehemiah 8:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>tabernacles</i>; Heb <i>succoth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 8:16">Nehemiah 8:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>tabernacles</i>; Heb <i>succoth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 8:17">Nehemiah 8:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>tabernacles</i>; Heb <i>succoth</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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