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Then Ezra, rising from the court of the temple, went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib
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and remained there, and did not eat meat nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.
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And there was a proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all those who were of the captivity that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem;
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and that whosoever met not there within two or three days, according as the elders who bore rule appointed, their cattle should be seized for the use of the temple, and they themselves cast out from those who were of the captivity.
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And in three days were all those of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth month.
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And all the multitude sat trembling in the broad court of the temple because of the present foul weather.