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Ezra 9:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said, ‘The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves  from the surrounding peoples whose detestable practices  are like those of the Canaanites, Hethites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

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Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners,  and they stood  and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.


How will it be known that I and your people have found favour with you unless you go with us? I and your people will be distinguished by this from all the other people on the face of the earth.’


Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, ‘This man doesn’t deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God! ’


When the officials of Judah heard about these things, they went from the king’s palace to the Lord’s temple and sat at the entrance of the New Gate of the Lord’s temple.  ,


Leave, leave, go out from there! Do not touch anything unclean; go out from her, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the  Lord.


Then Tobiah the Ammonite,  who was beside him, said, ‘Indeed, even if a fox  climbed up what they are building, he would break down their stone wall! ’


Whoever did not come within three days would forfeit all his possessions,  according to the decision of the leaders and elders, and would be excluded  from the assembly of the exiles.


He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.


King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter:  Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women


‘When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.


I see them from the top of rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. There is a people living alone; it does not consider itself among the nations.


Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt,  where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan,  where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.


For my angel will go before you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.


When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites,  which he swore to your ancestors that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,  you must carry out this ceremony in this month.


In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.’  ,


When Sanballat, Tobiah, and the Arabs,  Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed,  they became furious.


In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.


Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable  act has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned  the Lord’s sanctuary,  , which he loves,  and has married the daughter of a foreign god.  ,


An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.


‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land  you are entering to possess,  and he drives out many nations before you #– #the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations  more numerous and powerful than you   #– #


The children born to them in the third generation may enter the Lord’s assembly.


If you ever turn away and become loyal to the rest of these nations remaining among you,  and if you intermarry or associate with them  and they with you,


As for all the peoples who remained of the Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not from Israel   #– #


Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel,  an Elamite, responded to Ezra, ‘We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the surrounding peoples,  but there is still hope for Israel in spite of this.





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