 Then you have this huge list of people. They helped the people to understand the law while the people remained in their places. They read from the book, from the law of God clearly, and they gave the sense so that the people understood the reading. And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra, the priest and the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, this day is holy to the Lord your God. Stop, or he says, do not mourn, do not weep.