Now while Ezra H5830 was praying H6419 and making H3034 confession H3034, weeping H1058 and prostrating H5307 himself before H6440 the house H1004 of God H430, a very H3966 large H7227 assembly H6951, men H376, women H802, and children H3206, gathered H6908 to him from Israel H3478; for the people H5971 wept H1058 greatly H7235 H1059.
So all H3605 the men H376 of Judah H3063 and Benjamin H1144 assembled H6908 at Jerusalem H3389 within the three H7969 days H3117. It was the ninth H8671 month H2320 on the twentieth H6242 of the month H2320, and all H3605 the people H5971 sat H3427 in the public H7339 square H7339 before the house H1004 of God H430, trembling H7460 because H5921 of this matter H1697 and the heavy rain H1653.
But the exiles H1121 H1473 did H6213 so H3651. And [fn]Ezra H5830 the priest H3548 selected H914 men H376 who were the heads H7218 of fathers’ H1 households for each of their father’s H1 households H1004, all H3605 of them by name H8034. So they [fn]convened H3427 on the first H259 day H3117 of the tenth H6224 month H2320 to investigate H1875 the matter H1697.
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