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Then Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the men of Israel, called out, and said to Ezra, "We have sinned against the Lord, and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but even now there is hope for Israel.
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Behold, we are now before thee in our iniquities; for we can no longer stand in thy presence because of these things."
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While Ezra was praying and making his confession, weeping and lying upon the ground before the temple, there gathered about him a very great throng from Jerusalem, men and women and youths; for there was great weeping among the multitude.
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Then Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the men of Israel, called out, and said to Ezra, "We have sinned against the Lord, and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but even now there is hope for Israel.
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Let us take an oath to the Lord about this, that we will put away all our foreign wives, with their children,
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as seems good to you and to all who obey the law of the Lord.
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