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Intermarriage with Neighboring Peoples

(Nehemiah 13:23-31)

1Now when these things were done,the princescameto me, saying,The peopleof Israel,and the priests,and the Levites,have not separatedthemselves from the peopleof the lands,[doing] according to their abominations,[even] of the Canaanites,the Hittites,the Perizzites,the Jebusites,the Ammonites,the Moabites,the Egyptians,and the Amorites.2For they have takenof their daughtersfor themselves, and for their sons:so that the holyseedhave mingledthemselves with the peopleof [those] lands:yea, the handof the princesand rulershath been chiefin this trespass.3And when I heardthis thing,I rentmy garmentand my mantle,and plucked offthe hairof my headand of my beard,and sat downastonied.4Then were assembledunto me every one that trembledat the wordsof the Godof Israel,because of the transgressionof those that had been carried away;and I satastonieduntil the eveningsacrifice.

Ezra's Prayer of Confession

5And at the eveningsacrificeI arose upfrom my heaviness;and having rentmy garmentand my mantle,I fellupon my knees,and spread outmy handsunto the LORDmy God,6And said,O my God,I am ashamedand blushto lift upmy faceto thee, my God:for our iniquitiesare increasedover[our] head,and our trespassis grown upunto the heavens.7Since the daysof our fathers[have] we [been] in a greattrespassunto this day;and for our iniquitieshave we, our kings,[and] our priests,been deliveredinto the handof the kingsof the lands,to the sword,to captivity,and to a spoil,and to confusionof face,as [it is] this day.8And now for a littlespacegracehath been [shewed] from the LORDour God,to leaveus a remnant to escape,and to giveus a nailin his holyplace,that our Godmay lightenour eyes,and giveus a littlerevivingin our bondage.9For we [were] bondmen;yet our Godhath not forsakenus in our bondage,but hath extendedmercyunto us in the sightof the kingsof Persia,to giveus a reviving,to set upthe houseof our God,and to repairthe desolationsthereof, and to giveus a wallin Judahand in Jerusalem.

10And now, O our God,what shall we sayafterthis? for we have forsakenthy commandments,11Which thou hast commandedbythy servantsthe prophets,saying,The land,unto which ye goto possessit, is an uncleanlandwith the filthinessof the peopleof the lands,with their abominations,which have filledit from one endto anotherwith their uncleanness.12Now therefore givenot your daughtersunto their sons,neither taketheir daughtersunto your sons,nor seektheir peaceor their wealthforever:that ye may be strong,and eatthe goodof the land,and leave [it] for an inheritanceto your childrenfor ever.13And afterall that is comeupon us for our evildeeds,and for our greattrespass,seeing that thou our Godhast punishedus lessthan our iniquities[deserve], and hast givenus [such] deliveranceas this;14Should we againbreakthy commandments,and join in affinitywith the peopleof these abominations?wouldest not thou be angrywith us till thou hadst consumed[us], so that [there should be] no remnantnor escaping?15O LORDGodof Israel,thou [art] righteous:for we remainyet escaped,as [it is] this day:behold, we [are] beforethee in our trespasses:for we cannot standbeforethee because of this.