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Now when these things were done, the princescame to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holyseed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
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Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I satastonied until the eveningsacrifice.
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And at the eveningsacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
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And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increasedover our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.