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OET (OET-LV) And_Yēshūˊa/(Jeshua) and_Bānī and_Shērēⱱəyāh[fn][fn] Yāmīn/(Jamin) ˊAqqūⱱ Shabtay Hōdiyyāh Maˊₐsēyāh Qəlīţāʼ ˊAzaryāh Yōzāⱱād/(Jozabad) Ḩānān Pəlāyāh and_the_Lēviyyiy were_causing_to_understand DOM the_people from_the_law and_the_people were_at places_of_their.
OET (OET-RV) Then Yeshua, Bani, Shereveyah, Yamin, Akkub, Shabtai, Hodiyyah, Ma’aseyah, Kelita, Azaryah, Yozavad, Hanan, Pelayah, who were all Levites, explained what had been read to the people standing there.
Note 1 topic: translate-names
וְיֵשׁ֡וּעַ וּבָנִ֡י וְשֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֡ין עַקּ֡וּב שַׁבְּתַ֣י ׀ הֽוֹדִיָּ֡ה מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה קְלִיטָ֣א עֲזַרְיָה֩ יוֹזָבָ֨ד חָנָ֤ן פְּלָאיָה֙
and,Jeshua and,Bani and,Sherebiah Yāmīn/(Jamin) ˊAqqūⱱ Shabtay Hōdiy\sup_yāh Maˊₐsē\sup_yāh Qəlīţāʼ ˊAzar\sup_yāh Yōzāⱱād/(Jozabad) Ḩānān Pəlā\sup_yāh
These are the names of thirteen men.
וְהַלְוִיִּ֔ם
and,the,Levites
This expression could mean something like, “yes, the Levites,” indicating that all of these men were Levites. That means that they were descendants of Levi and had a special assignment, helping the priests. Alternate translation: “who were Levites.”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
מְבִינִ֥ים אֶת־הָעָ֖ם לַתּוֹרָ֑ה וְהָעָ֖ם עַל־עָמְדָֽם
explained DOM the,people from_the,law and,the,people on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in places_of,their
The implication is that Ezra paused regularly throughout the morning to allow this. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say that explicitly. Alternate translation: “explained the meaning of the Law to the people as they stood in their places in the crowd. Ezra paused regularly to allow this.”
8:7-9 The Levites always had the role of teaching people God’s word (Deut 33:10; Mal 2:5-6). In this case, they probably explained the meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures to smaller groups of people in Aramaic. Most of the people spoke Aramaic, the language of Babylon, rather than Hebrew as their first language. Jewish leaders eventually translated large portions of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, allowing people to hear and study the Bible in a language they understood.
OET (OET-LV) And_Yēshūˊa/(Jeshua) and_Bānī and_Shērēⱱəyāh[fn][fn] Yāmīn/(Jamin) ˊAqqūⱱ Shabtay Hōdiyyāh Maˊₐsēyāh Qəlīţāʼ ˊAzaryāh Yōzāⱱād/(Jozabad) Ḩānān Pəlāyāh and_the_Lēviyyiy were_causing_to_understand DOM the_people from_the_law and_the_people were_at places_of_their.
OET (OET-RV) Then Yeshua, Bani, Shereveyah, Yamin, Akkub, Shabtai, Hodiyyah, Ma’aseyah, Kelita, Azaryah, Yozavad, Hanan, Pelayah, who were all Levites, explained what had been read to the people standing there.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.