Separated — Sequestered themselves from all other business, and gave themselves wholly to this.
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Ezra 10:16
16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.