10 1 The people repent and turn, and put away their strange wives.

While Ezra prayed thus, and [a]confessed himself weeping, and falling down before the house of God, there assembled unto him of Israel a very great Congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept with a great lamentation.

Then Shechaniah the son of Jehiel one of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land, yet now there is [b]hope in Israel concerning this.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:1 He confessed his sins, and the sins of the people.
  2. Ezra 10:2 Meaning, that God would receive them to mercy.

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