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Then the men of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within three days; this was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. All the multitude sat in the open square before the temple, shivering because of the bad weather that prevailed. Then Ezra stood up and said to them, ‘You have broken the law and married foreign women, and so have increased the sin of Israel.

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