29 “So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!(A)

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29 Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid(A) of them.(B)

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They set up the altar on its foundation and offered burnt offerings for the morning and evening on it to the Lord even though they feared the surrounding peoples.(A)

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Despite their fear(A) of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening sacrifices.(B)

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Then the people who were already in the land[a] discouraged[b] the people of Judah and made them afraid(A) to build.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4 Lit people of the land, also in v. 6
  2. 4:4 Lit weakened the hands of

Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:4 Or and troubled them as they built