1 Esdras 9:3-5

Common English Bible

³ An announcement was issued throughout Judea and Jerusalem to all who had returned from exile that they should gather at Jerusalem. ⁴ Whoever didn’t meet there within two or three days, according to the order of the leading elders, their animals would be used for sacrifice and the people themselves cut off from the company of those who had returned from the exile.

⁵ Then everyone from the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem within three days; this was the twentieth day of the ninth month.^[a]