Nehemiah 8:5-7 And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood. ⁶ And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and adored God with their faces to the ground. ⁷ Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia, Maasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made silence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their place.