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The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God

On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust. Those truly of Israelite descent[a] separated from all the foreigners,[b] standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:2 tn Heb “the seed of Israel.”
  2. Nehemiah 9:2 tn Heb “sons of a foreigner.”
  3. Nehemiah 9:2 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 16, 23, 32, 34, 36).