Nehemiah 8:2

Easy To Read Version

So Ezra the priest brought the Law before those people that had met together. This was on the first day of the month. {\cf2\super [43]} It was the seventh month of the year. At that meeting were men and women, and anyone old enough to listen and understand.

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:1

On that day, the Book of Moses was read out loud so all the people could hear. They found this law written in the Book of Moses: No Ammonite person and no Moabite person would be permitted to join in the meetings with God.

Nehemiah 8:18

Ezra read to them from the Book of the Law every day of the festival. Ezra read the Law to them from the first day of the festival to the last day. The people of Israel celebrated the festival for seven days. Then on the eighth day the people met together for a special meeting, like the Law says.

Nehemiah 8:9

Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher, and the men from the Levites that were teaching the people spoke. They said, “Today is a special day {\cf2\super [44]} to the Lord your God. Don’t be sad and cry.” They said that because all the people had begun to cry as they were listening to the messages of God in the Law.

Nehemiah 9:1

Then on the 24th day of that same month, the people of Israel gathered together for a day of fasting. {\cf2\super [48]} They wore clothes of sadness and put ashes on their heads \{to show they were sad and upset\}.

Isaiah 28:9

The Lord is trying to teach a lesson to the people. The Lord is trying to make the people understand his teachings. But the people are like little babies. They are like babies that were at their mother’s breast only a very short time ago.

Leviticus 23:24

“Tell the people of Israel: On the first day of the seventh month, you must have a special day of rest. Blow the trumpet to remind the people that this is a holy meeting.

Malachi 2:7

A priest should know God’s teachings. People should be able to go to a priest and learn God’s teachings. A priest should be God’s messenger to the people.”

Numbers 29:1

“There will be a special meeting on the first day of the seventh month. You will not do any work on that day. That is the day for blowing the trumpet. [348]

Acts 15:21

They should not do these things, because there are still men (Jews) in every city who teach the law of Moses. The words of Moses have been read in the synagogue {\cf2\super [313]} every Sabbath day {\cf2\super [314]} for many years.”

Deuteronomy 17:18

“And when the king begins to rule, he must write a copy of the law for himself in a book. He must make that copy from the books that the priests and Levites [111] keep.

Joshua 8:35

All the people of Israel were gathered together there. All the women and children and all the foreigners that lived with the people of Israel were there. And Joshua read every command that Moses had given.