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Ezra 3:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Now when the seventh month came, after the Israelites had settled in their cities, the people gathered as one in Jerusalem.

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The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all Israel took up residence in their cities.

Now when the seventh month came, the whole people gathered as one in the square in front of the Water Gate, and they called upon Ezra the scribe to bring forth the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had commanded for Israel.

They found it written in the law commanded by the Lord through Moses that the Israelites should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month;

This shall be an everlasting statute for you: on the tenth day of the seventh month every one of you, whether a native or a resident alien, shall humble yourselves and shall do no work.

Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month you will have a sabbath rest, with trumpet blasts as a reminder, a declared holy day;

For then I will make pure the speech of the peoples, That they all may call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one accord;

Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes. They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart,

The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had everything in common.

I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose.

Three times a year, then, all your males shall appear before the Lord, your God, in the place which he will choose: at the feast of Unleavened Bread, at the feast of Weeks, and at the feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed,

So all the Israelites came out as one, from Dan to Beer-sheba including the land of Gilead, and the assembly gathered to the Lord at Mizpah.




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