1 Esdras 9:41-43

Common English Bible

⁴¹ He read from dawn until noon in the courtyard near the temple gate, before men and women. The whole crowd gave full attention to the Law. ⁴² Ezra the priest and reader of the Law stood on the wooden podium that had been prepared. ⁴³ Next to him stood Mattathiah, Shema, Ananias, Azariah, Uriah, Hezekiah, and Baalsamus at his right;