9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.
8:13 On the second day of the month the family leaders 2 met with 3 Ezra the scribe, together with all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to consider the words of the law.
1 tn Heb “the sons of the singers.”
1 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
2 tn Heb “were gathered to”; NAB, NIV “gathered around”; NRSV “came together to.”
1 tn Heb “like one man.”
2 tn Heb “said [to].”