12 Then all the people began to eat and drink, send portions, and have a great celebration,(A) because they had understood the words that were explained to them.

Festival of Booths Observed

13 On the second day, the family leaders of all the people, along with the priests and Levites,(B) assembled before Ezra the scribe(C) to study the words of the law. 14 They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should dwell in booths during the festival of the seventh month.(D)

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