The Pentateuch and the Assembly of the People

Six days after the wall's completion, and 58 days after work on it first began, the people assemble in the square facing the water gate hich was on the east wall. The people themselves seeme to be the ones who want the law to be read to them, and they summon ezra to do so. Such a public reading the law is similar to that which is prescribed in deuteronomy, chapter 31, verses ten to 13. Ezra s from early in the morning until noon, around six hours. This would not have been long enough to read the entirety of the pentateuch. Or perhaps he was particularly focusing upon the book of deuteronomy. He stood upon