1 Esdras 8:85

85 and never seek peaceful relations with them if we wanted to be strong and enjoy the land and pass it on to our descendants forever.

1 Esdras 8:85 In-Context

83 the land we were to occupy was an impure land because the heathen people who lived in it filled it with their disgusting deeds.

84 They told us that we should never intermarry with those people

85 and never seek peaceful relations with them if we wanted to be strong and enjoy the land and pass it on to our descendants forever.

86 Even after everything that has happened to us in punishment for our sins, we know that you, Lord, have punished us less than we deserve

87 and have allowed us to survive. But we have rebelled again, broken your Law, and intermarried with these wicked people.