1 Esdras 8:64-66

Common English Bible

⁶⁴ They delivered the king’s orders to the royal managers and to the commanders of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia. These officials honored the people and the Lord’s temple.

Problem of mixed marriages in Judah

⁶⁵ After these things happened, the leaders came to me and said, ⁶⁶ “The people of Israel, the rulers, the priests, and the Levites haven’t separated themselves from the impurities in the foreign neighboring peoples: the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Edomites.