1 Esdras 8:90-92
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
90 See, we are now before you in our iniquities; for we can no longer stand in your presence because of these things.’
The Plan for Ending Mixed Marriages
91 While Ezra was praying and making his confession, weeping and lying on the ground before the temple, there gathered around him a very great crowd of men and women and youths from Jerusalem; for there was great weeping among the multitude. 92 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the men of Israel, called out, and said to Ezra, ‘We have sinned against the Lord, and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but even now there is hope for Israel.
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