of the involvement of Levites later in the passage (8:9, 11, 13) and the specific identification of some here as Levites elsewhere (e.g., Jeshua, Bani, and others in 9:4–5), it seems likely that Levites were employed to assist the crowds in understanding what they heard, presumably by circulating among them in some fashion.66 The technique of the “tutors” includes reading the text themselves, but extends also to some type of interpretation. Despite the insistence of later rabbinic witnesses (Babylonian