2 and lodged there, and ate no bread and drank no water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude. (WEB) 3 A proclamation was made in all Judea and Jerusalem to all those who returned from captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem, (WEB) 4 and that whoever didn’t meet there within two or three days, in accordance with the ruling of the elders, that their livestock would be seized for the use of the temple, and they would be expelled from the multitude of those who returned from captivity. (WEB)
1 Esdras 9:2–4
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