Ezra 10:12
Context10:12 All the assembly replied in a loud voice: “We will do just as you have said! 1
Ezra 10:16
Context10:16 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,


[10:12] 1 tn Heb “thus according to your word [singular = Qere] concerning us, to do.”
[10:16] 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.
[10:16] 3 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”