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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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