## the twenty-fourth day ##

"the 24th day" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

## 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"