KJV:
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
NASB:
Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, "That's right! As you have said, so it is our duty to do.
KJV:
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
NASB:
"Let our leaders represent the whole assembly and let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce anger of our God on account of this matter is turned away from us."
KJV:
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.
NASB:
But the exiles did so. And Ezra the priest selected men who were heads of fathers' households for each of their father's households, all of them by name. So they convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.
KJV:
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
NASB:
They finished investigating all the men who had married foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
KJV:
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
NASB:
All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
KJV:
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
NASB:
So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
KJV:
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
NASB:
All of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause a disturbance in it.
KJV:
And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
NASB:
When the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times, "They will come up against us from every place where you may turn,"
KJV:
And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
NASB:
When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work.