for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

 (b) The reading of the scriptures. Seven people from the congregation read. As they read, the ancient Hebrew, which was no longer widely understood, was translated by the Targumist into Aramaic or Greek, in the case of the Law, one verse at a time, in the case of the prophets, three verses at a time. 