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Ezra 10:13

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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.

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.

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Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

it is a time of much rain

on Ezra 10:13-15

The crowd's own objection slows what their vow had just promised: too many are involved, the rain will not let them stand in the open, and sorting the cases cannot be done in a day or two. Their proposed remedy becomes the chapter's working method, rulers standing in for the whole congregation while the accused come by appointed times to their own city's elders and judges. Two men are named against this proceeding, Jonathan and Jahaziah, and the commentators read the clause both ways, some taking them for officers appointed to the work and others for its opponents.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

and it is the rainy season for the rains are falling upon us.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezra 10:13:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֲבָ֞לbut

    ʾavalH61 →

  • הָעָ֥םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • רָב֙[is] numerous

    ravH7227 →454 times

  • וְהָעֵ֣תand the time

    vehaetH6256 →296 times

  • גְּשָׁמִ֔ים[is] rains

    geshamimH1653 →

  • וְאֵ֥יןand there not

    veeinH369 →789 times

  • כֹּ֖חַ[is] ability

    koachH3581 →

  • לַעֲמ֣וֹדto stand

    laamodH5975 →521 times

  • בַּח֑וּץon the outside

    bachutzH2351 →

  • וְהַמְּלָאכָ֗הand the business

    vehamelakhahH4399 →167 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • לְי֤וֹם[belongs] to a day

    leyomH3117 →2304 times

  • אֶחָד֙one

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • וְלֹ֣אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • לִשְׁנַ֔יִםto two

    lishnayimH8147 →768 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • הִרְבִּ֥ינוּwe have increased

    hirbinuH7235 →227 times

  • לִפְשֹׁ֖עַto transgress

    lifshoa'H6586 →

  • בַּדָּבָ֥רin the matter

    badavarH1697 →1440 times

  • הַזֶּֽה׃<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Ezra

Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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