1 Esdras 9:7

7 So Ezra arose up and said unto them, "Ye have transgressed the law in marrying foreign wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel.

1 Esdras 9:7 In-Context

5 And in three days were all those of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth month.

6 And all the multitude sat trembling in the broad court of the temple because of the present foul weather.

7 So Ezra arose up and said unto them, "Ye have transgressed the law in marrying foreign wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel.

8 And now, by confessing, give glory unto the Lord God of our fathers,

9 and do His will and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land and from the foreign women."