⁴ Get up, for this matter is your responsibility,^(A) and we support you. Be strong and take action!” ^(B)

⁵ Then Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said; so they took the oath.^(C)

²⁵ I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair.^(A) I forced them to take an oath^(B) before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!^(C)