Ezra 3:12

3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders ¹  – older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established ²  – were weeping loudly, ³  and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.

Ezra 10:2

10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, ⁴  addressed Ezra:

“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying ⁵  foreign women from the local peoples. ⁶  Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. ⁷ 

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¹ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

² sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

³ tn Heb “with a great voice.”

⁴ tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew MSS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate עֵילָם (’elam, “Elam”) rather than the reading עוֹלָם (’olam, “eternity”) found in the MT.

⁵ tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.

⁶ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

⁷ tn Heb “upon this.”