Nehemiah 8:2

Good News Translation

So Ezra brought it to the place where the people had gathered—men, women, and the children who were old enough to understand.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:29

do hereby join with our leaders in an oath, under penalty of a curse if we break it, that we will live according to God's Law, which God gave through his servant Moses; that we will obey all that the Lord, our Lord, commands us; and that we will keep all his laws and requirements.

Nehemiah 13:1

When the Law of Moses was being read aloud to the people, they came to the passage that said that no Ammonite or Moabite was ever to be permitted to join God's people.

Nehemiah 8:18

From the first day of the festival to the last they read a part of God's Law every day. They celebrated for seven days, and on the eighth day there was a closing ceremony, as required in the Law.

Nehemiah 8:9

When the people heard what the Law required, they were so moved that they began to cry. So Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra, the priest and scholar of the Law, and the Levites who were explaining the Law told all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God, so you are not to mourn or cry.

Nehemiah 9:1

On the twenty-fourth day of the same month the people of Israel gathered to fast in order to show sorrow for their sins. They had already separated themselves from all foreigners. They wore sackcloth and put dust on their heads as signs of grief. Then they stood and began to confess the sins that they and their ancestors had committed.

Isaiah 28:9

They complain about me. They say, “Who does that man think he's teaching? Who needs his message? It's only good for babies that have just stopped nursing!

Malachi 2:7

It is the duty of priests to teach the true knowledge of God. People should go to them to learn my will, because they are the messengers of the Lord Almighty.

Numbers 29:1

On the first day of the seventh month you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done. On that day trumpets are to be blown.

Acts 15:21

For the Law of Moses has been read for a very long time in the synagogues every Sabbath, and his words are preached in every town.”

Deuteronomy 17:18

When he becomes king, he is to have a copy of the book of God's laws and teachings made from the original copy kept by the levitical priests.

Joshua 8:35

Every one of the commandments of Moses was read by Joshua to the whole gathering, which included women and children, as well as the foreigners living among them.