While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling face down before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.
Deuteronomy 31:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Gather the people #– #men, women, dependents, and the resident foreigners within your city gates #– #so that they may listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and be careful to follow all the words of this law. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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, American Standard Version (1901) Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; Common English Bible Gather everyone—men, women, children, and the immigrants who live in your cities—in order that they hear it, learn it, and revere the LORD your God, carefully doing all the words of this Instruction, Catholic Public Domain Version And when the people have gathered together, men as well as women and little children, and the new arrivals who are within your gates, they shall listen so that they may learn, and may fear the Lord your God, and may keep and fulfill all the words of this law, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the people being all assembled together, both men and women, children and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of this law: |
While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling face down before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.
They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the Lord.
Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the entire remnant of the people obeyed the Lord their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. So the people feared the Lord.
You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me.
The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children for ever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and follow them, so that you will succeed in everything you do.
Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.’
The day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, “Assemble the people before me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.”
All Israel #– #resident foreigner and citizen alike #– #with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on either side of the ark of the Lord’s covenant facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded earlier concerning blessing the people of Israel.
There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before the entire assembly of Israel, including the women, the dependents, and the resident foreigners who lived among them.