Ezra 9:1-2

Ezra Prays About Intermarriage

1After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the aLevites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands bwith their abominations, from the cCanaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 dFor they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the eholy race
Hebrew offspring
has gmixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”
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