1 Esdras 9:2-4

Common English Bible

² and stayed the night there. He neither ate bread nor drank water, as he was mourning for the great immoral deeds of the multitude.

³ An announcement was issued throughout Judea and Jerusalem to all who had returned from exile that they should gather at Jerusalem. ⁴ Whoever didn’t meet there within two or three days, according to the order of the leading elders, their animals would be used for sacrifice and the people themselves cut off from the company of those who had returned from the exile.