Ezra 10:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁰ Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed and married foreign women and so increased the guilt of Israel. ¹¹ Now make confession to the Lord the God of your ancestors and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”^{(A) 12} Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said.