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The Exiles Prepare to Return to Jerusalem

Then the leaders[a] of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites—all those whose mind God had stirred—got ready[b] to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:5 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
  2. Ezra 1:5 tn Heb “arose.”

Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin,(A) and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved(B)—prepared to go up and build the house(C) of the Lord in Jerusalem.

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