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)

³ When the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.^(A)

³⁰ Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work,^(A)