Esdras 9:1

1 Ora, logo que essas coisas foram terminadas, vieram ter comigo os príncipes, dizendo: O povo de Israel, e os sacerdotes, e os levitas, não se têm separado dos povos destas terras, das abominações dos cananeus, dos heteus, dos perizeus, dos jebuseus, dos amonitas, dos moabitas, dos epípcios e dos amorreus;

Esdras 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 9:1

Now when these things were done
When the captives with Ezra had refreshed themselves, and weighed the money and vessels they brought, and put them into the hands of proper persons, and offered sacrifices, and delivered the king's commissions to his lieutenants and governors, and shown his own:

the princes came to me;
some of the nobles of Israel, the most religious of them, who were concerned at the corruptions that were among them, though not a sufficient number to reform them:

saying the people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not
separated themselves from the people of the land:
but joined with them, though not in idolatrous practices, yet by marrying with them, which might lead them into them:

doing according to their abominations;
not serving idols as they did, but imitating them in their marriages: even

of the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the
Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;
affinity with many of these was forbidden by an express law, ( Deuteronomy 7:1 Deuteronomy 7:3 ) all but the Moabites, Ammonites, and Egyptians, and from these for the same reason they were to abstain; namely, lest they should be drawn into idolatry; that the priests and Levites should do this, who ought to have known the law, and instructed the people better, was very sad and shocking.

Esdras 9:1 In-Context

1 Ora, logo que essas coisas foram terminadas, vieram ter comigo os príncipes, dizendo: O povo de Israel, e os sacerdotes, e os levitas, não se têm separado dos povos destas terras, das abominações dos cananeus, dos heteus, dos perizeus, dos jebuseus, dos amonitas, dos moabitas, dos epípcios e dos amorreus;
2 pois tomaram das suas filhas para si e para seus filhos; de maneira que a raça santa se tem misturado com os povos de outras terras; e até os oficiais e magistrados foram os primeiros nesta transgressão.
3 Ouvindo eu isto, rasguei a minha túnica e o meu manto, e arranquei os cabelos da minha cabeça e da minha barba, e me sentei atônito.
4 Então se ajuntaram a mim todos os que tremiam das palavras do Deus de Israel por causa da transgressão dos do cativeiro; porém eu permaneci sentado atônito até a oblação da tarde.
5 A hora da oblação da tarde levantei-me da minha humilhação, e com a túnica e o manto rasgados, pus-me de joelhos, estendi as mãos ao Senhor meu Deus,
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