¹⁰ So the ^[a]couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but ^(A)they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

¹⁸ For a multitude of the people, ^(A)even many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, ^(B)yet they ate the Passover ^(C)otherwise than ^[a]prescribed. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon