⁵ 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.

¹² “We will give it back,” they said. “And we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.”

Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath^(A) to do what they had promised.