Deuteronomy 31:10-13
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.
31:13 Then their children, who have not known this law,
will also hear about and learn to fear the
Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Deuteronomy 31:2
31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about,
and the
Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’
Deuteronomy 17:9
17:9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.
Nehemiah 8:1-8
8:1 all the people gathered together
in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked
Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the
LORD had commanded Israel.
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.
8:4 Ezra the scribe stood on a towering wooden platform constructed for this purpose. Standing near him on his right were Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Masseiah. On his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
8:5 Ezra opened the book in plain view of all the people, for he was elevated above all the people. When he opened the book, all the people stood up.
8:6 Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people replied “Amen! Amen!” as they lifted their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
8:7 Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah – all of whom were Levites – were teaching the people the law, as the people remained standing.
8:8 They read from the book of God’s law, explaining it and imparting insight. Thus the people gained understanding from what was read.
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,