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After these things had been done,
the leaders came to me and said, “
The people
of Israel, including
the priests and
the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from
the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those
of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites.