Nehemiah 8:2

So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly which included men and women and all those able to understand what they heard. (This happened on the first day of the seventh month.)

Leviticus 23:24

"Tell the Israelites, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a complete rest, a memorial announced by loud horn blasts, a holy assembly.

Numbers 29:1

"'On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.

Deuteronomy 17:18

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

Deuteronomy 31:9-13

Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord's covenant, and to all Israel's elders.

2 Chronicles 17:7-9

In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah.

Isaiah 28:9

Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother's breast!

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all.

Acts 15:21

For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."

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Summary

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

Could hear with understanding

General references

Bible References

Priest

Deuteronomy 17:18
When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.
Deuteronomy 31:9
Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord's covenant, and to all Israel's elders.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all.

Congregation

Deuteronomy 31:11
when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.
2 Chronicles 17:7
In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah.
Acts 15:21
For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."

Could hear with understanding

Isaiah 28:9
Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother's breast!

The first

Leviticus 23:24
"Tell the Israelites, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a complete rest, a memorial announced by loud horn blasts, a holy assembly.
Numbers 29:1
"'On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.

General references

Leviticus 10:11
and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them through Moses."
Deuteronomy 29:10
You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God -- the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

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