Ezra 10:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice: According to thy word unto us, so be it done.

¹³ But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and me are not able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for we have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)

¹⁴ Let rulers be appointed in all the multitude: and in all our cities, let them that have taken strange wives come at the times appointed, and with them the ancients and the judges of every city, until the wrath of our God be turned away from us for this sin.