Ezra 10:7-9

Easy-to-Read Version

⁷ Then he sent a message to every place in Judah and Jerusalem. The message told all the Jewish people who had come back from captivity to meet together in Jerusalem. ⁸ Those who did not come to Jerusalem in three days like the officials and elders said would lose their property and be removed from the group.

⁹ So in three days all the men from the families of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem. And on the twentieth day of the ninth month,^[a] all the people met together in the Temple yard. They were very upset because of the reason for the meeting and because of the heavy rain.