NEHEMIAH CHAPTER 8 Ezra bringeth and expoundeth the law of Moses, and blesseth God with the people, Nehemiah 8:1-8. Nehemiah and Ezra comfort the people, Nehemiah 8:9-12. The people's forwardness to hear and to be instructed in the law, Nehemiah 8:13-15. They make themselves booths, Nehemiah 8:16,17; and keep the feast seven days, Nehemiah 8:18. The street that was before the water-gate; of which See Poole on "Nehemiah 3:26".
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Nehemiah 8:1
1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.