1 Esdras 9:37

37 The priests, the Levites, and the Israelites lived in Jerusalem and in the countryside. On the new moon of the seventh month, after the people of Israel were settled in their homes,

1 Esdras 9:37 In-Context

35 Of the family of Nooma: Mazitias, Zabad, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah.

36 All these had married foreign women, and they divorced them, along with their children.

37 The priests, the Levites, and the Israelites lived in Jerusalem and in the countryside. On the new moon of the seventh month, after the people of Israel were settled in their homes,

38 the whole crowd gathered together in the courtyard near the east gate of the temple.

39 They told Ezra the chief priest and reader to bring the Law from Moses that had been given by the Lord God of Israel.

Footnotes

• [a] September–October, Tishrei