When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and robe, pulled out some of the hair from my head and beard, and sat down devastated.(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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Sending Away Foreign Wives

10 While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling facedown(A) before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.(B)

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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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13 Yet when they were sick,
my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting,
and my prayer was genuine.[a](A)

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  1. Psalm 35:13 Lit prayer returned to my chest

13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(A)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(B)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.(A)

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So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting,(A) and in sackcloth and ashes.(B)

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37 and was a widow for 84 years.[a] She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.(A)

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  1. Luke 2:37 Or she was a widow until the age of 84

37 and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.[a](A) She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.(B)

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  1. Luke 2:37 Or then had been a widow for eighty-four years.

Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.(A)

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So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them(A) and sent them off.(B)

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