³³ Then food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my errand.” He said, “Speak on.”

¹⁸ And day by day, from the first day to the last day, Ezra^[a] read from the book of the law of God. They kept the festival seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.^(A)