Discovery BoxEzra 3:12 
Context3:12 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
Context10:2 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
1 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
2 sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586
3 tn Heb “with a great voice.”
4 tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew
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.”
