Ezra 7:6

7:6 This Ezra is the one who came up from Babylon. He was a scribe who was skilled in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king supplied him with everything he requested, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Ezra 10:1-2

The People Confess Their Sins

10:1 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites – men, women, and children alike – gathered around him. The people wept loudly. ¹  10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, ²  addressed Ezra:

“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying ³  foreign women from the local peoples. ⁴  Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. ⁵ 

Ezra 10:6

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 ⁶  there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ⁷  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ⁸  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

¹ tn Heb “with much weeping.”

¹ tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew MSS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate עֵילָם (’elam, “Elam”) rather than the reading עוֹלָם (’olam, “eternity”) found in the MT.

² tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.

³ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

⁴ tn Heb “upon this.”

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 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.

² tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”