Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel (A)take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.

Then Ezra withdrew (B)from before the house of God and went to the (C)chamber of (D)Jehohanan the son of (E)Eliashib, where he spent the night,[a] neither (F)eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles. And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:6 Probable reading; Hebrew where he went

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