Ezra 10:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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.’ ¹² Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, ‘It is so; we must do as you have said.