Níxīmǐjì 8:2

2 Qī yuè chū yī rì , jìsī Yǐsīlá jiāng lǜfǎ shū , daì dào tīng le néng míngbai de nánnǚ huì zhòng miànqián .

Níxīmǐjì 8:2 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 8:2

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation,
&c.] Having a perfect copy of it, which the people knew, and therefore desired him to bring it; he brought it either out of his own case or chest, or out of the temple where it was laid up; some restrain this to the book of Deuteronomy; this he produced in sight of the whole assembly:

both of men and women;
adult persons of each sex, who met promiscuously; though Grotius thinks the women had a separate place:

and all that could hear with understanding;
all under age, who yet were capable of hearing the law read to some advantage to them:

upon the first day of the seventh month;
the month Tisri, answering to part of September and October; this was a high day, for not only the first of every month was a festival, but the first of the seventh month was the feast of blowing of trumpets, ( Leviticus 23:24 ) , and besides, this was New Year's day, the first day of their civil year, as the first of Nisan was of their ecclesiastical year, and was of greater antiquity than that; and so Jarchi says, this was the first day of the year; to which may be added, that this was the day on which the altar was first set up, on the Jews' return from captivity, ( Ezra 3:6 ) .

Níxīmǐjì 8:2 In-Context

1 Dào le qī yuè , Yǐsèliè rén zhù zaì zìjǐ de chéng lǐ . nàshí , tāmen rútóng yī rén jùjí zaì shuǐ mén qián de kuānkuò chù , qǐng Wénshì Yǐsīlá , jiāng Yēhéhuá jiè Móxī chuán gĕi Yǐsèliè rén de lǜfǎ shū daì lái .

2 Qī yuè chū yī rì , jìsī Yǐsīlá jiāng lǜfǎ shū , daì dào tīng le néng míngbai de nánnǚ huì zhòng miànqián .

3 Zaì shuǐ mén qián de kuānkuò chù , cóng qīngzǎo dào shǎngwu , zaì zhòng nánnǚ , yīqiè tīng le néng míngbai de rén miànqián dú zhè lǜfǎ shū . zhòng mín zhāi ĕr ér tīng .

4 Wénshì Yǐsīlá zhàn zaì wèi zhè shì tè beì de mù tái shang . Mǎtātíyǎ , Shìmǎ , Yànaìyǎ , Wūlìyà , Xīlèjiā , hé Mǎxīyǎ zhàn zaì tāde yòubiān . Pídàyǎ , Mǐshālì , Mǎjīyǎ , Hāshùn , Hābádàná , Sājiālìyà , hé Mǐshūlán zhàn zaì tāde zuǒbiān .

5 Yǐsīlá zhàn zaì zhòng mín yǐshàng , zaì zhòng mín yǎnqián shaì kāi zhè shū . tā yī zhǎn kāi , zhòng mín jiù dōu zhàn qǐlai .