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and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and he himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
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Verse 8. Away. Hebrew and Septuagint “subjected to anathema,” ( Calmet.) and utterly destroyed; ( Bible.) or, according to some editions of the Septuagint and Josephus, “consecrated to the temple.” Esdras exercised the power which had been entrusted to him. Calmet. 7:16.
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