Ezra:9:1-3

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* Now when these things were done , the princes came to me , saying , The people of Israel Yisra #el #, and the priests , and the Levites , have not separated themselves from the people of the lands , doing according to their abominations tow #ebah #, even of the Canaanites K @na #aniy #, the Hittites , the Perizzites , the Jebusites , the Ammonites , the Moabites Mow #abiy #, the Egyptians , and the Amorites . * 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 ma #al #. * And when I heard this thing , I rent my garment and my mantle m @#iyl #, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard , and sat down astonied .

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