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Nehemiah 13:1

The Pulpit Commentary on Nehemiah 13:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

On that day. See . The phrase seems to mean, in Nehemiah, "About that time." They read in the book of Moses. It is uncertain whether this was a casual reading, like that of Ezra's, recorded in , or whether it was the prescribed reading () at the time of the feast of tabernacles.

Therein was found written. See . It seems to be implied that the nation at large had no knowledge of the law, except that which they derived from the occasional public reading of the Pentateuch, or portions of it.

Copies of the law were extremely scarce; and even if an ordinary Jew possessed one, he would not have been able to understand it (comp. above, ).

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