Nehemiah 8:12-14

8:12 So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food ¹  with others ²  and to enjoy tremendous joy, ³  for they had gained insight in the matters that had been made known to them.

8:13 On the second day of the month the family leaders ⁴  met with ⁵  Ezra the scribe, together with all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to consider the words of the law. 8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through ⁶  Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,

¹ tn Heb “to send portions.”

² tn The Hebrew text does not include the phrase “with others” but it has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “to make great joy.”

⁴ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

⁵ tn Heb “were gathered to”; NAB, NIV “gathered around”; NRSV “came together to.”

⁷ tn Heb “by the hand of.”