Deuteronomy 31:10-13

10And Moses commanded them, a“At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at bthe Feast of Booths, 11when all Israel comes cto appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, dyou shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 eAssemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, 13and that their children, fwho have not known it, gmay hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, has long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

2 Chronicles 17:9

9And ithey taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the Lord with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

Nehemiah 8:1-8

Ezra Reads the Law

1And all the people gathered as one man into the square before jthe Water Gate. And they told kEzra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel. 2So Ezra the priest lbrought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, mon the first day of the seventh month. 3 nAnd he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. 4And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand. 5And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. 6And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, oAmen, Amen,” plifting up their hands. qAnd they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. 7 rAlso Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites,
Vulgate; Hebrew and the Levites
thelped the people to understand the Law, uwhile the people remained in their places.
8They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly,
Or with interpretation, or paragraph by paragraph
and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

Nehemiah 9:3

3 wAnd they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.

Nehemiah 13:1

Nehemiah’s Final Reforms

1On that day xthey read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written ythat no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
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