Nehemiah 8:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² And Ezra the priest brought the Torah before the assembly of both men and women and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of both men and women and all who could hear with understanding, on the first of the seventh month.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

Common English Bible

² So on the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Instruction before the assembly. This assembly was made up of both men and women and anyone who could understand what they heard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Therefore, Ezra the priest brought the law before the multitude of men and women, and all those who were able to understand, on the first day of the seventh month.

Nehemiah 8:2 Cross References

Nehemiah 10:29

were joining with their brothers, their nobles, and were entering into a curse and into an oath to walk in the Torah of Elohim, which was given by Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and to guard and do all the commands of יהוה  our Master, and His right-rulings and His laws,

Nehemiah 13:1

On that day was read from the Book of Mosheh in the hearing of the people, and in it was found written that an Ammonite and Mo’aḇ

Nehemiah 8:18

And day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Torah of Elohim. And they performed the festival seven days. And on the eighth day there was an assembly, according to the right-ruling.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Neḥ

Nehemiah 9:1

And on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 28:9

Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts!

Leviticus 23:24

“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕ

Malachi 2:7

“For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of יהוה  of hosts.

Numbers 29:1

‘And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work, it is a day of blowing the trumpets for you.

Acts 15:21

“For from ancient generations Mosheh has, in every city, those proclaiming him – being read in the congregations every Sabbath.”

Deuteronomy 17:18

“And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his reign, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Torah in a book, from the one before the priests, the Lĕ

Joshua 8:35

There was not a word of all that Mosheh had commanded which Yehoshua did not read before all the assembly of Yisra’ĕ