The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

 (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. 