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11 And they sang in unison to one another, giving thanks to the LORD: |He is good, and his gracious love to Israel endures forever.| And all the people shouted out loudly in praise to the LORD when the foundation of the LORD's Temple was laid. 12 Now a number of the priests, the Levities, and the leading officials of the elders—who were very elderly—had seen the former Temple with their own eyes. When they observed the foundation of the Temple being laid, they wept with a loud voice, while the rest of them shouted for joy. 13 As a result, the people couldn't distinguish between the noise coming from the shouts of joy and the noise coming from the weeping people, because everyone was shouting loudly and could be heard a long way off. Ezra 3:11-13, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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