Ezra 10:13
11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
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- ÅB
- Men folket er tallrikt, og det er nå regntid, så vi ikke er i stand til å stå her ute, og dette er et arbeid som ikke kan utføres på en dag eller to; for det er mange av oss som har syndet i denne sak.
- OTB
- Men det er mange folk her, og det er regntid; vi kan ikke stå ute. Dessuten kan denne saken ikke løses på en dag eller to, for vi har syndet stort i denne saken.
- B1930
- Men folket er tallrikt, og det er nu regntid, så vi ikke er i stand til å stå her ute, og dette er et arbeid som ikke kan utføres på en dag eller to; for det er mange av oss som har syndet i denne sak.
- BSB
- But there are many people here, and it is the rainy season. We are not able to stay out in the open. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.
- KJV
- But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
- WEB
- But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
- ASV
- But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without: neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
- DARBY
- But the people are many, and it is a time of pouring rain, and it is not possible to stand without: neither is this a work for one day or two; for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
- BLB
- But the people [are] many, and [it is] the time of rains, and we have no strength to stand outside, and the work [is] not of one day or two, for we have multiplied to transgress in this matter.
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Matthew 7:13–14
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Les i sammenhengEzra 10:18–44
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
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