Guidelines Established and Monitored: Was there anything else left to do after the grand finale of the wall dedication ceremony? Indeed there was, according to the editor. At the close of Ezra 1–6 the narrator recognized in the dedication of the rebuilt temple an opportunity to put into place normative guidelines that echoed the Torah concerning the regular staffing of the temple. Similarly here, the editor supplements the wall dedication story with the enactment of two guidelines that brought the community into line with religious tradition in 12:44–47 and 13:1–3. Each of these passages begins with the same Hebrew phrase, “On that day” (NRSV) in 12:44 and On that day in 13:1, echoing that very phrase in verse 43. However, a note of discord is struck in 13:4, where a time reference to a fl…