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While Ezra was praying and making his confession, weeping and lying on the ground before the temple, there gathered around him a very great crowd of men and women and youths from Jerusalem; for there was great weeping among the multitude.
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Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the men of Israel, called out, and said to Ezra, "We have sinned against the Lord, and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but even now there is hope for Israel.
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Let us take an oath to the Lord about this, that we will put away all our foreign wives, with their children,
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as seems good to you and to all who obey the law of the Lord.
95
Rise up and take action, for it is your task, and we are with you to take strong measures."
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Then Ezra rose up and made the leaders of the priests and Levites of all Israel swear that they would do this. And they swore to it.
[a].
Other ancient authorities read [as seems good to you." And all who obeyed the law of the Lord rose and said to Ezra, +V95+W"Rise up]
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