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So Esdras arose up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed the law in marrying strange wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel.
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And now by confessing give glory unto the Lord God of our fathers,
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And do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women.
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Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Like as thou hast spoken, so will we do.
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But forasmuch as the people are many, and it is foul weather, so that we cannot stand without, and this is not a work of a day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far: