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Within the three days, on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the men of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin came to Jerusalem
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and assembled in the Temple square. Everyone was shivering from the cold because it was wintertime.
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Then Ezra stood up and spoke to them, "You have broken the Law and brought guilt on Israel by marrying foreign women.
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Now then, tell the truth and confess your sins to the Lord, the God of our ancestors,
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and do what he requires. Separate yourselves from the foreigners living in our land and get rid of your foreign wives."