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# the twenty-fourth day of the same month
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"the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month" This is near the middle of October on Western calendars. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-hebrewmonths]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal]])
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# the people of Israel were assembled
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"the people of Israel came together"
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# they were wearing sackcloth, and they put dust on their heads
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This was in order to show how sorry they were for the wrong things they and their ancestors had done. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# The descendants of Israel
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"The Israelites"
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# separated themselves from all the foreigners
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"no longer had anything to do with those who were not Israelites"
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# They stood and confessed their own sins and the evil actions of their ancestors
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"They admitted the wrong things that they had done and also the wrong things their forefathers had done"
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