Ezra 10:1-4
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10Now awhile Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself bbefore the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly. 2And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, “aWe have been unfaithful to our God and have 1married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. 3“So now alet us cut a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and 1,btheir children, according to the counsel of 2my lord and of cthose who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done daccording to the law. 4“Arise! For this matter is 1your responsibility, but we will be with you; abe strong and act.”