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## the twenty-fourth day ##
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fourth day** - "the 24th day" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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## the people of Israel were assembled ##
"the people of Israel came together" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
## they were wearing sackcloth, and they put dust on their heads ##
This was in order to show how sorry they were for the wrong things they and their ancestors had done.
## The descendants of Israel ##
"the sons and daughters of Israel" or "the Israelites"
## separated themselves apart from all the foreigners ##
"stood apart from those who were not sons and daughters of Israel"
## They stood and confessed their own sins and the evil actions of their ancestors ##
"They admitted the wrong things that they had done and also the wrong things their forefathers had done"