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. 8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through 3 Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month, 8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message 4 in all their cities and in Jerusalem: 5 “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”
1 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
2 tn Heb “were gathered to”; NAB, NIV “gathered around”; NRSV “came together to.”
3 tn Heb “by the hand of.”
4 tn Heb “a voice.”
5 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.