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Get up, for this matter concerns you. We are with you, so be strong and act decisively!”

So Ezra got up and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath to carry out this plan.[a] And they all took a solemn oath. Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed[b] there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:5 tn Heb “to do according to this plan.”
  2. Ezra 10:6 tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.

Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it.”

So Ezra rose up and put the leading priests and Levites and all Israel under oath(A) to do what had been suggested. And they took the oath. Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food and drank no water,(B) because he continued to mourn over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

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