¶ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled themselves unto Jerusalem within three days, which was the twentieth day of the [a]ninth month, and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling for this matter, and for the [b]rain.

10 And Ezra the Priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to [c]increase the trespass of Israel.

11 Now therefore [d]give praise unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:9 Which contained part of November and part of December.
  2. Ezra 10:9 For the season was given to rain and so the weather was more sharp and cold, and also their conscience touched them.
  3. Ezra 10:10 Ye have laid one sin upon another.
  4. Ezra 10:11 Read Josh. 7:19.

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