And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the order of the leaders and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and he himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Away. Hebrew and Septuagint, "subjected to anathema "(Calmet) and utterly destroyed; (Haydock) or, according to some editions of the Septuagint and Josephus, "consecrated to the temple. "Esdras exercises the power which had been entrusted to him, chap. vii. 16.