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When I heard this, I tore my garment and my mantle and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.(A)

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When I heard this, I tore(A) my tunic and cloak, pulled hair from my head and beard and sat down appalled.(B)

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The People’s Response

10 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him out of Israel; the people also wept bitterly.(A)

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The People’s Confession of Sin

10 While Ezra was praying and confessing,(A) weeping(B) and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.

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Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.(A)

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The king said to me, “What is it you want?”

Then I prayed to the God of heaven,

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