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16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out[a] by name men who were leaders in their family groups.[b] They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

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  1. Ezra 10:16 tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadelu, “were separated”) of the MT.
  2. Ezra 10:16 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”