1 Esdras 8:84-86

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁸⁴ Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their descendants, and do not take their daughters for your descendants; ⁸⁵ do not seek ever to have peace with them, so that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.” ⁸⁶ And all that has happened to us has come about because of our evil deeds and our great sins. For you, O Lord, lifted the burden of our sins