10:5 So Ezra got up and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath to carry out this plan. 1 And they all took a solemn oath. 10:6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed 2 there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.
10:7 A proclamation 3 was circulated 4 throughout Judah and Jerusalem 5 that all the exiles were to be assembled in Jerusalem.
1 tn Heb “to do according to this plan.”
1 tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.
1 tn Heb “voice.”
2 tn Heb “they sent.”
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.