1 Esdras 8:67-69

Revised Standard Version

⁶⁷ And they delivered the king’s orders to the royal stewards and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenic′ia; and these officials^[a] honored the people and the temple of the Lord.

Ezra’s Prayer

⁶⁸ After these things had been done, the principal men came to me and said, ⁶⁹ “The people of Israel and the leaders and the priests and the Levites have not put away from themselves the alien peoples of the land and their pollutions, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per′izzites, the Jeb′usites, the Mo′abites, the Egyptians, and the E′domites.