1 Esdras 9:36-38

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³⁶ All these had married foreign women, and they put them away together with their children.

Ezra Reads the Law to the People

³⁷ The priests and the Levites and the Israelites settled in Jerusalem and in the region. On the new moon of the seventh month, when the people of Israel were in their settlements,^{(A) 38} the whole multitude gathered with one accord in the open square before the east gate of the temple;^(B)