Discovery BoxEzra 10:7 
Context10:7 A proclamation 1 was circulated 2 throughout Judah and Jerusalem 3 that all the exiles were to be assembled in Jerusalem.
Ezra 10:16
Context10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out 4 by name men who were leaders in their family groups. 5 They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,
1 tn Heb “voice.”
2 tn Heb “they sent.”
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 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.
5 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”
