Ezra 10:8-10

Living Bible

^7-8 Then a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem that everyone should appear at Jerusalem within three days and that the leaders and elders had decided that anyone who refused to come would be disinherited and excommunicated from Israel. ⁹ Within three days, on the fifth day of December,^[a] all the men of Judah and Benjamin had arrived and were sitting in the open space before the Temple; and they were trembling because of the seriousness of the matter and because of the heavy rainfall. ¹⁰ Then I, Ezra the priest, arose and addressed them:

“You have sinned, for you have married heathen women; now we are even more deeply under God’s condemnation than we were before.