Ezra 10:12

10:12 All the assembly replied in a loud voice: “We will do just as you have said! ¹ 

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ²  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ³  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

¹ tn Heb “thus according to your word [singular = Qere] concerning us, to do.”

² tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadÿlu, “were separated”) of the MT.

³ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”