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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 #
Asah #
el #
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 Ma #
aseyah #,
and Eliezer #
Eliy #
ezer #,
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 .