Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.

And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:

Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.

And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments,(which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;

They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.