Ezra 9:4

9:4 Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe ¹  gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile. ²  Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.

Ezra 10:2

10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, ³  addressed Ezra:

“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying ⁴  foreign women from the local peoples. ⁵  Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. ⁶ 

Ezra 10:10

10:10 Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

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¹ tn Heb “who trembled at the words of the God of Israel.”

² tn Heb “the exile”; the words “the people” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

³ 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.

⁴ tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.

⁵ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

⁶ tn Heb “upon this.”