Discovery BoxEzra 10:1-2 
Context10:1 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites – men, women, and children alike – gathered around him. The people wept loudly. 1 10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, 2 addressed Ezra:
“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying 3 foreign women from the local peoples. 4 Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. 5
1 tn Heb “with much weeping.”
2 tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew
3 tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.
4 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”
5 tn Heb “upon this.”
