Ezra Sent to Teach the People

1 Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, ^qEzra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,

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The People Confess Their Sin

1 While Ezra prayed and made ^sconfession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

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Ezra Reads the Law

1 And all the people gathered ^xas one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told ^yEzra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel.