Ezra 9 and 10 The great sin: ‘the set-apart seed is intermingled with the peoples.�?/P> And when these matters had been done, the leaders came to me, saying, "The people of Yisra�?/FONT>ĕl and the priests and the Lĕwites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, those of the Kenaʽanites, the Ḥittites, the Perizzites, the Yebusites, the Ammonites, the Mo’abites, the Mitsrites, and the Amorites, for they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the set-apart seed is intermingled with the peoples of those lands. And the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass."
<DIR> "O my Elohim, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my Elohim, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens. "Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been very guilty, and for our crookednesses we, our sovereigns, and our priests have been given into the hand of the sovereigns of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of faces, as it is this day. "But now, for a short while, favour has been shown from
יהוה our Elohim, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His set-apart place, that our Elohim might enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage. "For we were slaves, but in our bondage our Elohim did not forsake us, and extended kindness to us in the presence of the sovereigns of Persia, to revive us, to raise up the House of our Elohim, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Yehud?ah and Yerushalayim. "And now, O our Elohim, what do we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commands, which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are going in to possess is a land unclean through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it, from one end to another, by their uncleanness. ‘And now, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons. And do not seek their peace or wealth ever, so that you are strong, and shall eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.�?"And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our Elohim have held back the rod upon our crookednesses, and have given us such deliverance as this, should we turn back, to break Your commands, and join in marriage with the people of these abominations? Would You not be enraged with us until You had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor? "O יהוה Elohim of Yisra�?/FONT>ĕl, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. See, we are before You, in our guilt, for there is no one to stand before You concerning this!"
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"We have trespassed against our Elohim, and have taken foreign women from the peoples of the land. And now there is expectancy in Yisra�?/FONT>ĕl concerning this. "Now then, let us make a covenant with our Elohim to put away all these wives and those who have been born to them, according to the counsel of הוה and of those who tremble at the command of our Elohim. And let it be done according to the Torah. "Arise, for the matter is upon you, but we are with you. Be strong and act."
"You, you have trespassed and have taken foreign women, adding to the guilt of Yisra�?/FONT>ĕl "And now, make confession to הוה Elohim of your fathers, and do His desire, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women."
"Right! It is upon us to do according to your word. And let all those in our cities who have taken foreign women come at appointed times.
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And they gave their hand in pledge to put away their wives. And being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock for their guilt.
All these had taken foreign women, and some of them had women who had borne children.
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