Ezra:9-10
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Now when these things were done ,
the princes came to me ,
saying ,
The people of Israel ,
and the priests ,
and the Levites ,
have not separated themselves from the people of the lands ,
doing according to their abominations ,
even of the Canaanites ,
the Hittites ,
the Perizzites ,
the Jebusites ,
the Ammonites ,
the Moabites ,
the Egyptians ,
and the Amorites .
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For they have taken of their daughters for themselves ,
and for their sons :
so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands :
yea ,
the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass .
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And when I heard this thing ,
I rent my garment and my mantle ,
and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard ,
and sat down astonied .
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Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel ,
because of the transgression of those that had been carried away ;
and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice .
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And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness ;
and having rent my garment and my mantle ,
I fell upon my knees ,
and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God ,
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And said ,
O my God ,
I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee ,
my God :
for our iniquities are increased over our head ,
and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens .
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Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day ;
and for our iniquities have we ,
our kings ,
and our priests ,
been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands ,
to the sword ,
to captivity ,
and to a spoil ,
and to confusion of face ,
as it is this day .
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And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God ,
to leave us a remnant to escape ,
and to give us a nail in his holy place ,
that our God may lighten our eyes ,
and give us a little reviving in our bondage .
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For we were bondmen ;
yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage ,
but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia ,
to give us a reviving ,
to set up the house of our God ,
and to repair the desolations thereof ,
and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem .
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And now ,
O our God ,
what shall we say after this ?
for we have forsaken thy commandments ,
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Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets ,
saying ,
The land ,
unto which ye go to possess it ,
is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands ,
with their abominations ,
which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness .
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Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons ,
neither take their daughters unto your sons ,
nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever :
that ye may be strong ,
and eat the good of the land ,
and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever .
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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds ,
and for our great trespass ,
seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve ,
and hast given us such deliverance as this ;
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Should we again break thy commandments ,
and join in affinity with the people of these abominations ?
wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us ,
so that there should be no remnant nor escaping ?
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O LORD God of Israel ,
thou art righteous :
for we remain yet escaped ,
as it is this day :
behold ,
we are before thee in our trespasses :
for we cannot stand before thee because of this .
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Now when Ezra had prayed ,
and when he had confessed ,
weeping and casting himself down before the house of God ,
there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children :
for the people wept very sore .
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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel ,
one of the sons of Elam ,
answered and said unto Ezra ,
We have trespassed against our God ,
and have taken strange wives of the people of the land :
yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing .
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Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives ,
and such as are born of them ,
according to the counsel of my lord ,
and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God ;
and let it be done according to the law .
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Arise ;
for this matter belongeth unto thee :
we also will be with thee :
be of good courage ,
and do it .
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Then arose Ezra ,
and made the chief priests ,
the Levites ,
and all Israel ,
to swear that they should do according to this word .
And they sware .
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Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God ,
and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib :
and when he came thither ,
he did eat no bread ,
nor drink water :
for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away .
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And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity ,
that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem ;
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And that whosoever would not come within three days ,
according to the counsel of the princes and the elders ,
all his substance should be forfeited ,
and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away .
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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days .
It was the ninth month ,
on the twentieth day of the month ;
and all the people sat in the street of the house of God ,
trembling because of this matter ,
and for the great rain .
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And Ezra the priest stood up ,
and said unto them ,
Ye have transgressed ,
and have taken strange wives ,
to increase the trespass of Israel .
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Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers ,
and do his pleasure :
and separate yourselves from the people of the land ,
and from the strange wives .
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Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice ,
As thou hast said ,
so must we do .
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But the people are many ,
and it is a time of much rain ,
and we are not able to stand without ,
neither is this a work of one day or two :
for we are many that have transgressed in this thing .
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Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand ,
and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times ,
and with them the elders of every city ,
and the judges thereof ,
until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us .
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Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter :
and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them .
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And the children of the captivity did so .
And Ezra the priest ,
with certain chief of the fathers ,
after the house of their fathers ,
and all of them by their names ,
were separated ,
and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter .
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And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month .
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And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives :
namely ,
of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak ,
and his brethren ;
Maaseiah ,
and Eliezer ,
and Jarib ,
and Gedaliah .
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And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives ;
and being guilty ,
they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass .
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And of the sons of Immer ;
Hanani ,
and Zebadiah .
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And of the sons of Harim ;
Maaseiah ,
and Elijah ,
and Shemaiah ,
and Jehiel ,
and Uzziah .
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And of the sons of Pashur ;
Elioenai ,
Maaseiah ,
Ishmael ,
Nethaneel ,
Jozabad ,
and Elasah .
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Also of the Levites ;
Jozabad ,
and Shimei ,
and Kelaiah , (
the same is Kelita ,)
Pethahiah ,
Judah ,
and Eliezer .
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Of the singers also ;
Eliashib :
and of the porters ;
Shallum ,
and Telem ,
and Uri .
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Moreover of Israel :
of the sons of Parosh ;
Ramiah ,
and Jeziah ,
and Malchiah ,
and Miamin ,
and Eleazar ,
and Malchijah ,
and Benaiah .
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And of the sons of Elam ;
Mattaniah ,
Zechariah ,
and Jehiel ,
and Abdi ,
and Jeremoth ,
and Eliah .
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And of the sons of Zattu ;
Elioenai ,
Eliashib ,
Mattaniah ,
and Jeremoth ,
and Zabad ,
and Aziza .
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Of the sons also of Bebai ;
Jehohanan ,
Hananiah ,
Zabbai ,
and Athlai .
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And of the sons of Bani ;
Meshullam ,
Malluch ,
and Adaiah ,
Jashub ,
and Sheal ,
and Ramoth .
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And of the sons of Pahathmoab ;
Adna ,
and Chelal ,
Benaiah ,
Maaseiah ,
Mattaniah ,
Bezaleel ,
and Binnui ,
and Manasseh .
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And of the sons of Harim ;
Eliezer ,
Ishijah ,
Malchiah ,
Shemaiah ,
Shimeon ,
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Benjamin ,
Malluch ,
and Shemariah .
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Of the sons of Hashum ;
Mattenai ,
Mattathah ,
Zabad ,
Eliphelet ,
Jeremai ,
Manasseh ,
and Shimei .
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Of the sons of Bani ;
Maadai ,
Amram ,
and Uel ,
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Benaiah ,
Bedeiah ,
Chelluh ,
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Vaniah ,
Meremoth ,
Eliashib ,
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Mattaniah ,
Mattenai ,
and Jaasau ,
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And Bani ,
and Binnui ,
Shimei ,
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And Shelemiah ,
and Nathan ,
and Adaiah ,
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Machnadebai ,
Shashai ,
Sharai ,
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Azareel ,
and Shelemiah ,
Shemariah ,
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Shallum ,
Amariah ,
and Joseph .
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Of the sons of Nebo ;
Jeiel ,
Mattithiah ,
Zabad ,
Zebina ,
Jadau ,
and Joel ,
Benaiah .
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All these had taken strange wives :
and some of them had wives by whom they had children .
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And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ;
and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses ,
which the LORD had commanded to Israel .
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And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women ,
and all that could hear with understanding ,
upon the first day of the seventh month .
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And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood ,
which they had made for the purpose ;
and beside him stood Mattithiah ,
and Shema ,
and Anaiah ,
and Urijah ,
and Hilkiah ,
and Maaseiah ,
on his right hand ;
and on his left hand ,
Pedaiah ,
and Mishael ,
and Malchiah ,
and Hashum ,
and Hashbadana ,
Zechariah ,
and Meshullam .
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And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people ; (
for he was above all the people ;)
and when he opened it ,
all the people stood up :
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And Ezra blessed the LORD ,
the great God .
And all the people answered ,
Amen ,
Amen ,
with lifting up their hands :
and they bowed their heads ,
and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground .
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And Nehemiah ,
which is the Tirshatha ,
and Ezra the priest the scribe ,
and the Levites that taught the people ,
said unto all the people ,
This day is holy unto the LORD your God ;
mourn not ,
nor weep .
For all the people wept ,
when they heard the words of the law .
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And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people ,
the priests ,
and the Levites ,
unto Ezra the scribe ,
even to understand the words of the law .
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Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel ,
and Jeshua :
Seraiah ,
Jeremiah ,
Ezra ,
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Of Ezra ,
Meshullam ;
of Amariah ,
Jehohanan ;
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These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua ,
the son of Jozadak ,
and in the days of Nehemiah the governor ,
and of Ezra the priest ,
the scribe .
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And Azariah ,
Ezra ,
and Meshullam ,
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And his brethren ,
Shemaiah ,
and Azarael ,
Milalai ,
Gilalai ,
Maai ,
Nethaneel ,
and Judah ,
Hanani ,
with the musical instruments of David the man of God ,
and Ezra the scribe before them .
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