The People Confess Their Sin

1 While Ezra prayed and made ^sconfession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

Ezra Reads the Law

1 And all the people gathered ^xas one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told ^yEzra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel.

26 These were in the days of ^rJoiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ^sgovernor and of ^tEzra, the priest and scribe.