Nehemiah 8:12-14

Context
8:12 So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food¹ with others² 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 leaders⁴ met with⁵ 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 through⁶ Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,

[8:12] ¹tn Heb “to send portions.”

[8:12] ²tn The Hebrew text does not include the phrase “with others” but it has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:12] ³tn Heb “to make great joy.”

[8:13] ⁴tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

[8:13] ⁵tn Heb “were gathered to”; NAB, NIV “gathered around”; NRSV “came together to.”

[8:14] ⁷tn Heb “by the hand of.”