Ezra 10:9-11

New English Translation

⁹ All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

¹⁰ Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel. ¹¹ Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents^[a] and from these foreign wives.”