1 Esdras 8:80
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CEB
“The land that you are about to possess is a land polluted with the foreigners of the land. The foreigners have filled it with their impurity.
NRSVA
Even in our bondage we were not forsaken by our Lord, but he brought us into favour with the kings of the Persians, so that they have given us food
NRSVUE
‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted with the pollution of the foreigners of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.
RSV
Even in our bondage we were not forsaken by our Lord, but he brought us into favor with the kings of the Persians, so that they have given us food
WYC
And when we served (in bondage), we were not forsaken of (or by) the Lord our God; but he set us in grace, putting to us kings of Persia to give us meat (or food),
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