For they have taken their daughters to themselves, and to their sons, and they have mixed the holy seed with the people of the lands, and the hand of the [a]Princes and rulers have been chief in this trespass.

But when I heard this saying, I rent my clothes and my garment, and plucked off the hair of mine head, and of my beard, and sat down [b]astonied.

And there assembled unto me all that feared the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of them of the captivity. And I sat down astonied until the (A)evening sacrifice.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 9:2 That is, the governors are the chief beginners hereof.
  2. Ezra 9:3 As one doubting whether God would continue his benefits towards us, or else destroy this which he had begun.

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