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12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders[a]—older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established[b]—were weeping loudly,[c] and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.

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  1. Ezra 3:12 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
  2. Ezra 3:12 sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.
  3. Ezra 3:12 tn Heb “with a great voice.”