Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; (A)be strong and do it.” Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel (B)take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.

Then Ezra withdrew (C)from before the house of God and went to the (D)chamber of (E)Jehohanan the son of (F)Eliashib, where he spent the night,[a] neither (G)eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

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Footnotes

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

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