Níxīmǐjì 8:5

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 .

Níxīmǐjì 8:5 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 8:5

And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people
(for he was above all the people)
So plainly seen by them, and what he did, and the more easily heard, for which purpose the pulpit was made for him to stand in:

and, when he opened it, all the people stood up;
that they might the better hear the law read, as well as in honour and reverence of it; the Jews say ^F13, that from the times of Moses to Rabban Gamaliel, they learned the law only standing; but after his death a disease came into the world, and they learned it sitting; and now it is a canon with them, that it is not necessary to stand at the reading of the law ^F14.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 T. Bab. Megillah, fol. 21. 1.
F14 Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. Orach Chayim, c. 146. sect. 4.

Níxīmǐjì 8:5 In-Context

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 .

6 Yǐsīlá chēngsòng Yēhéhuá zhì dà de shén . zhòng mín dōu jǔ shǒu yìngshēng shuō , āmén , āmén , jiù dī tóu , miàn fú yú dì , jìngbaì Yēhéhuá .

7 Yéshūyà , Bāní , Shìlìbǐ, Yǎǐn , Yàgǔ , Shābǐtaì , Hédìyǎ , Mǎxīyǎ ,Jīlìtā , Yàsālìyǎ , Yuēsǎbá , Hānán , Píláiyǎ , hé Lìwèi rén shǐ bǎixìng míngbai lǜfǎ . bǎixìng dōu zhàn zaì zìjǐ de dìfang .