The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: commanded to Israel.
NEH 8:2 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.
NEH 8:3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water
gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and
those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were
attentive unto the book of the law.
NEH 8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had
made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and
Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on
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