THEN ALL the people gathered together as one man in the broad place before the Water Gate; and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had given to Israel.
Assemble the people–men, women, and children, and the stranger and the sojourner within your towns–that they may hear and learn [reverently] to fear the Lord your God and be watchful to do all the words of this law,