⁵ Then Ezra arose, and made the leaders of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel ^(A)swear an oath that they would do according to this word. So they swore an oath.

²⁹ these joined with their brethren, their nobles, ^(A)and entered into a curse and an oath ^(B)to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

³⁰ We would not give ^(A)our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;