CLV(i)
2 And Ezra the priest brings the law before the assembly, both of men and women, and every one intelligent to hear, on the first day of the seventh month,
3 and he reads in it before the broad place that [is] before the water-gate, from the light till the middle of the day, over-against the men, and the women, and those intelligent, and the ears of all the people [are] unto the book of the law.
4 And Ezra the scribe stands on a tower of wood that they made for the purpose, and Mattithiah stands near him, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right; and on his left Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam.
5 And Ezra opens the book before the eyes of all the people--for above all the people he has been--and at his opening [it] all the people have stood up,
6 and Ezra blesses Yahweh, the great Elohim, and all the people answer, `Amen, Amen,' with lifting up of their hands, and they bow and do obeisance to Yahweh--faces to the earth.
7 And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, giving the people understanding in the law, and the people, [are] on their station,
8 and they read in the book, in the law of Elohim, explaining--so as to give the meaning, and they give understanding to the convocation.
9 And Nehemiah--he [is] the Tirshatha--said (and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who are instructing the people) to all the people, `To-day is holy to Yahweh your Elohim, do not mourn, nor weep:' for all the people are weeping at their hearing the words of the law.