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Get up, for this is your duty, but we will be with you. Have strength of heart and do it.” So Ezra got up and made the head religious leaders, the Levites and all Israel promise that they would do as he had said, and they promised.

Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. He went there, but he did not eat bread or drink water, for he was filled with sorrow because the people who returned had not been faithful to God.

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