1 Esdras 8:67-69

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶⁷ They delivered the king’s orders to the royal stewards and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and these officials^[a] honoured the people and the temple of the Lord.

Ezra’s Prayer

⁶⁸ After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, ⁶⁹ ‘The people of Israel and the rulers and the priests and the Levites have not put away from themselves the alien peoples of the land and their pollutions, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Edomites.