“Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.”
Nehemiah 9:1 (WEB)
Context Reading
1Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them. 2The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. 3They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed and worshiped Yahweh their God.