Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the men of Israel, called out, and said to Ezra, ‘We have sinned against the Lord, and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but even now there is hope for Israel.
Then Shecani′ah the son of Jehi′el, one of the men of Israel, called out, and said to Ezra, “We have sinned against the Lord, and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but even now there is hope for Israel.
And when Jechonias, the son of Jeel, of the sons of Israel, had cried, Ezra said, We have sinned against the Lord (or And then Jechonias, the son of Jeel, one of the sons of Israel, cried out, and said, O Ezra, we have sinned against the Lord), for that we have set with us into matrimony heathen women, of the Gentiles of the land.