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10 As Ezra was praying his confession and weeping and bowing on the steps of the True God’s temple, a huge group of Israelite men, women, and children joined him in weeping. Shecaniah (son of Jehiel the Elamite) then spoke up.

Shecaniah and his family had returned to Jerusalem at the first opportunity 60 years earlier.

Shecaniah: You are right. We have forgotten our True God and have married foreign women from pagan nations. But there is hope for Israel yet.

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