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Then Shechoniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Israel, called out and said, "O Ezra, we have sinned against the Lord God; we have married foreign women of the nations of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.
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Let us make an oath to the Lord that we will put away all our wives whom we have taken of the heathen, with their children,
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as thou hast decreed, and as many as do obey the law of the Lord.
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Arise and put in execution; for to thee doth this matter appertain, and we will be with thee. Do valiantly!"
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So Ezra arose and took an oath from the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do accordingly regarding these things; and so they swore.
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