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Ezra reads the Law aloud to the whole assembled people, with interpreted reading — scripture turned into the vernacular on the spot.
In plain words
Ezra reads the Law aloud to all the people, with others explaining it as he reads: scripture put into the people's own language on the spot. It is the first release: the word taken from behind the curtain and handed to the crowd.
The mechanism
RELEASE, FIRST INSTANCE — the word pulled out of the priestly enclosure and put into the people's hands. Not to the priests behind a curtain; to the crowd
Scripture
Nehemiah 8
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED; a capture; a release
- Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
- Plate — Gustave Dore, "Ezra Reads the Law to the People" (Nehemiah 8:1-12), La Sainte Bible (Tours, 1866) · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:109.Ezra_Reads_the_Law_to_the_People.jpg
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — Nehemiah 8
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