1 Esdras 8:65-67

Common English Bible

Problem of mixed marriages in Judah

⁶⁵ After these things happened, the leaders came to me and said, ⁶⁶ “The people of Israel, the rulers, the priests, and the Levites haven’t separated themselves from the impurities in the foreign neighboring peoples: the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Edomites. ⁶⁷ They and their families have intermarried with their daughters, and the holy nation has been intermixed with the land’s foreigners. The leaders and the officials have been sharing in this unlawful practice right from the start.”