² For ^(A)they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that ^(B)the holy ^[a]race has ^(C)intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.”

^27 [a]Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil ^(A)by acting unfaithfully against our God by ^[b]marrying foreign women?”