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Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' households, ^(z)the old men who had seen the first ^[h]temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many shouted aloud for joy,

so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard far away.