1 Esdras 9:36-38

Revised Standard Version

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

Ezra Reads the Law to the People

³⁷ The priests and the Levites and the men of Israel settled in Jerusalem and in the country. On the new moon of the seventh month, when the sons of Israel were in their settlements, ³⁸ the whole multitude gathered with one accord into the open square before the east gate of the temple;