Ezra 10:1

The People Confess Their Sins

10:1 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 

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ²  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ³  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

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¹ tn Heb “with much weeping.”

² tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadÿlu, “were separated”) of the MT.

³ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”