Primary Verses:

1. Ex. 24:7

   • "And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that YHVH hath said will we do, and be obedient."

2. Ex. 35:1

   • "And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which YHVH hath commanded, that ye should do them."

Supporting Verses:

3. Deut. 5:1

   • "And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them."

4. Deut. 31:10-13

   • "And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,  When all Israel is come to appear before YHVH thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.  Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear YHVH your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:  And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear YHVH your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it."

5. Joshua 8:34-35

   • "And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.  There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them."

6. Neh. 8:2-6

   • "And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.  And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.  And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.  And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:  And Ezra blessed YHVH, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped YHVH with their faces to the ground."

7. Neh. 8:13-14

   • "And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.  And they found written in the law which YHVH had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:"

8. Neh. 13:1-3

   • "On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;  Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.  Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude."

9. Jer. 36:6

   • "Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of YHVH in the ears of the people in YHVH's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities."

10. Acts 13:15

    • "And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on."