¶ Then arose Ezra, and caused the chief Priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they sware.

And Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: he went even thither, but he did eat neither bread nor drunk water: for he mourned, because of the transgression of them of the captivity.

And they caused a proclamation to go throughout Judah and Jerusalem, unto [a]all them of the captivity, that they should assemble themselves unto Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:7 Hebrew, the sons of the captivity.

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