1 Esdras 9:9-13
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9 And do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women.
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10 Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Like as thou hast spoken, so will we do.
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11 But forasmuch as the people are many, and it is foul weather, so that we cannot stand without, and this is not a work of a day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:
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12 Therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,
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13 And with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.