Discovery BoxEzra 10:13 
Context10:13 However, the people are numerous and it is the rainy season. 1 We are unable to stand here outside. Furthermore, this business cannot be resolved in a day or two, for we have sinned greatly in this matter.
Ezra 10:16
Context10:16 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,
1 tn Heb “the time [is] rain showers.”
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.”
