Ezra 10:1-3

New American Standard Bible

Reconciliation with God

10 Now ^(A)while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself ^(B)before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept greatly. ² Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “^(C)We have been unfaithful to our God and have ^[a]married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. ³ So now ^(D)let’s make a covenant with our God to send away all the wives and ^[b](E)their children, following the counsel of ^[c]my lord and of ^(F)those who fear the commandment of our God; and let it be done ^(G)according to the Law.