Scribe and priest associated with Torah reading and postexilic reform.
26 appearances3 Bible books1 known aliases
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Priest descended from and skilled in the Law of who travels from to under with a royal commission to teach Torah and order temple worship. He fasts and prays beside the river for safe journey, then confronts the community over intermarriage with the surrounding peoples in a long penitential prayer. Together with he leads the great public reading of the Law from a wooden platform in Jerusalem, with the explaining the sense so the people understand.
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