Ezra 9:1

The Unfaithfulness of the Exiles

Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not ^aseparated themselves from the peoples of the lands, ^baccording to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.

Ezra 9:2

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2 For ^athey have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that ^bthe holy seed has ^cintermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the officials have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.”

Ezra 10:2

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2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, “^aWe have been unfaithful to our God and have ¹married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Nehemiah 13:23

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You Shall Not Marry Foreigners

23 In those days I also saw that the Jews had ¹^amarried women from ^bAshdod, ^cAmmon, and Moab.