8:13 On the second day of the month the family leaders 1 met with 2 Ezra the scribe, together with all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to consider the words of the law.
12:22 As for the Levites, 3 in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua the heads of families were recorded, as were the priests during the reign of Darius the Persian. 12:23 The descendants of Levi were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles 4 as heads of families up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib.
1 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
2 tn Heb “were gathered to”; NAB, NIV “gathered around”; NRSV “came together to.”
3 tn Some scholars delete these words, regarding them as a later scribal addition to the text.
5 tn Or “the Book of the Annals” (so NRSV); NLT “The Book of History.”