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1 Esdras 9:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Esdras 9:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 But the multitude is great, and it is winter, and we are not able to stand in the open air. This is not a work we can do in one day or two, for we have sinned too much in these things. 12 So let the leaders of the multitude stay, and let all those in our settlements who have foreign wives come at the time appointed 13 with the elders and judges of each place, until we are freed from the wrath of the Lord over this matter.”
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