By Elimu Assistant Team 
The stages followed during the renewal of the covenant at the time of Nehemiah are as follows:
- The people gathered in the public square in Jerusalem.
- The priest Ezra read the law to the people.
- They performed repentance gestures of raising / lowering their hands/moaning/wailing/ weeping / spontaneous reactions.
- The people constructed makeshift tents/shelters to celebrate the feasts of the booths.
- There was a national day of confession/fasting and they wore sack clothes.
- Ezra led people in the prayer of confession.
- They sealed the covenant by signing an agreement under the leadership of Nehemiah and the priest.
- The people promised not to go against the Mosaic law.
- The re-distribution of the people in Jerusalem and the countryside.
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