57 to ^gshow when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease.

8 “Take care, in ^la case of leprous¹ disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

2 So Ezra the priest ^vbrought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, ^won the first day of the seventh month.

8 They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly,¹ and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

This Day Is Holy

9 And Nehemiah, who was ^ethe governor, and Ezra ^fthe priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, ^g“This day is holy to the Lord your God; ^hdo not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.

18 Then they said, ^p“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, ^qfor the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. ^rCome, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

7 For ^mthe lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people¹ should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.