Ezra 10:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord, and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be done according to the law.

⁴ Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee: take courage, and do it.

⁵ So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word, and they swore.