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Ezra 10:1-2
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The People Confess Their Sins

10 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites—men, women, and children alike—gathered around him. The people wept loudly.[a] 2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam,[b] addressed Ezra:

“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying[c] foreign women from the local peoples.[d] Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:1 tn Heb “with much weeping.”
  2. Ezra 10:2 tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate עֵילָם (ʿelam, “Elam”) rather than the reading עוֹלָם (ʿolam, “eternity”) found in the MT.
  3. Ezra 10:2 tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.
  4. Ezra 10:2 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”
  5. Ezra 10:2 tn Heb “upon this.”
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