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and that whosoever came not within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be [a]forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days (it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month); and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for [b]the great rain. 10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:8 Hebrew devoted.
  2. Ezra 10:9 Hebrew the rains.