OET interlinear NEH 9:3

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-symaction

וַ⁠יָּק֨וּמוּ֙ עַל־עָמְדָ֔⁠ם

(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_stood on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in place_of,their and,they_read_aloud in,the_scroll_of law_of YHWH God_of,their fourth_of the=day and,a_fourth made_confession and,[they_were]_bowing_down to/for=YHWH God_of,their )

Rose up here likely means stood up. As in [8:5](../08/05.md), the people would have stood up to show respect as they listened to the reading from the Law of Moses. Alternate translation: [Then the people stood up where they were]

וַֽ⁠יִּקְרְא֗וּ בְּ⁠סֵ֨פֶר

(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_stood on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in place_of,their and,they_read_aloud in,the_scroll_of law_of YHWH God_of,their fourth_of the=day and,a_fourth made_confession and,[they_were]_bowing_down to/for=YHWH God_of,their )

The people themselves did not read from the book. They here likely means Ezra and the Levites, who read similarly to the crowd that gathered on the occasion described in [8:1–12](../08/01.md). Alternate translation: [as their leaders read to them]

Note 2 topic: translate-unknown

בְּ⁠סֵ֨פֶר תּוֹרַ֧ת יְהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵי⁠הֶ֖ם

(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_stood on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in place_of,their and,they_read_aloud in,the_scroll_of law_of YHWH God_of,their fourth_of the=day and,a_fourth made_confession and,[they_were]_bowing_down to/for=YHWH God_of,their )

This is another of the various ways that this story describes a book containing the Law of Moses. Alternate translation: [from the Law of Moses] or [from the law that Yahweh had given through Moses]

Note 3 topic: translate-unknown

רְבִעִ֣ית הַ⁠יּ֑וֹם וּ⁠רְבִעִית֙

fourth_of the=day and,a_fourth

In this culture the day and the night were each divided into four equal parts of three hours each. So this means that the people listened to a reading of the Law for three hours, and then they spent the next three hours in prayer and confession. Alternate translation: [for three hours, and then for another three hours]