lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered
unto him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women
and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.

1Esdr 8:92
Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel,
called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord
God, we have married strange women of the nations of the land,
and now is all Israel aloft.

1Esdr 8:93
Let us make an oath to the Lord, that we will put away all
our wives, which we have taken of the heathen, with their
children,

1Esdr 8:94
Like as thou hast decreed, and as many as do obey the law of
the Lord.

1Esdr 8:95
Arise and put in execution: for to thee doth this matter
appertain, and we will be with thee: do valiantly.

1Esdr 8:96
So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests
and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and so they
sware.

1Esdr 9:1
Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the