1. Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel assembled with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt upon them.
2. The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
3. While they stood in their place, they read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.