1 Esdras 9:10-12 World English Bible (WEB)

10. Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Like as you have spoken, so will we do.

11. But forasmuch as the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:

12. therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,

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