Ezra 10:10-12

Living Bible

¹⁰ Then I, Ezra the priest, arose and addressed them:

“You have sinned, for you have married heathen women; now we are even more deeply under God’s condemnation than we were before. ¹¹ Confess your sin to the Lord God of your fathers and do what he demands: separate yourselves from the heathen people about you and from these women.”

¹² Then all the men spoke up and said, “We will do what you have said.