Ezra 3:1Easy To Read VersionSo, by the seventh month, {\cf2\super [10]} the people of Israel had moved back to their own home towns. At that time, all the people met together in Jerusalem. They were all united as one people. See the chapter |
So, the priests, the people from the family group of Levi, the gatekeepers, the singers, and the temple servants settled down in their own towns. And all the other people of Israel settled down in their own towns. And by the seventh month {\cf2\super [41]} of the year all the people of Israel had settled down in their own towns.
So all the people of Israel met together in the seventh month {\cf2\super [42]} of the year. They were together and in agreement just as if they were one man. They all met together in the open place in front of the Water Gate. All those people asked Ezra the teacher to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses. That is the Law that the Lord had given to the people of Israel.