Ezra the Scribe — Nehemiah 8:5–8

    And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people); and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
And Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God; and all the people answered,
Amen, Amen,
with the lifting up of their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.
NEH 8:5–6


    Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
NEH 8:7–8
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