...the Levites as they "caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading" (vv. 7—8). It needs to be borne in mind that, after the captivity, Hebrew, as a spoken language,...
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. 
