Ezr 9:2 | ESV | STEP | For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons , so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands . And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost .

a ch. 10:2; Neh. 13:23, 27; [Ex. 34:16; Deut. 7:3; Neh. 10:30]

Ezra 9:2

2 ^aFor they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the ^bholy race ^{▼▼Hebrew offspring} has ^dmixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”