Deuteronomy 31:10-12
31:10 He
commanded them: “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts,
at the Feast of Temporary Shelters,
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.
31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the
Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.
Nehemiah 8:2-3
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.)
8:3 So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon
before the men and women and those children who could understand.
All the people were eager to hear
the book of the law.
Nehemiah 9:3
9:3 For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the
LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins
and worshiping the
LORD their God.
Nehemiah 13:1
Further Reforms by Nehemiah
13:1 On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. They found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God,