Ezra 9:1

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Ezra’s Prayer About Intermarriage

9 After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate^(A) from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites,^(B) Ammonites,^(C) Moabites,^(D) Egyptians and Amorites.^(E)

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Ezra 9:11

New International Version

¹¹you gave through your servants the prophets when you said: ‘The land you are entering^(A) to possess is a land polluted^(B) by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices^(C) they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other.

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Ezra 9:14

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¹⁴Shall we then break your commands again and intermarry^(A) with the peoples who commit such detestable practices? Would you not be angry enough with us to destroy us,^(B) leaving us no remnant^(C) or survivor?

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