1 Esdras 8:87-94
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87 And didst give unto us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress thy law, and to mingle ourselves with the uncleanness of the nations of the land.
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88 Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us, till thou hadst left us neither root, seed, nor name?
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89 O Lord of Israel, thou art true: for we are left a root this day.
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90 Behold, now are we before thee in our iniquities, for we cannot stand any longer by reason of these things before thee.
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91 And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered unto him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.
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92 Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the nations of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.
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93 Let us make an oath to the Lord, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the heathen, with their children,
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94 Like as thou hast decreed, and as many as do obey the law of the Lord.