Ezra 10:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered together in Jerusalem within the three-day period: it was in the ninth month,[a] on the twentieth day of the month. All the people, sitting in the open place before the house of God, were trembling both over the matter at hand and because it was raining. 10 (A)Then Ezra, the priest, stood up and said to them: “Your apostasy in taking foreign women as wives has added to Israel’s guilt. 11 But now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and do his will: separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”
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- 10:9 The ninth month: Kislev (November–December), during the first of two rainy seasons in Palestine.
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