1Esdr 9:8
And now by confessing give glory unto the Lord God of our
fathers,

1Esdr 9:9
And do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of
the land, and from the strange women.

1Esdr 9:10
Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice,
Like as thou hast spoken, so will we do.

1Esdr 9:11
But forasmuch as the people are many, and it is foul weather,
so that we cannot stand without, and this is not a work of a day
or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:

1Esdr 9:12
Therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all
them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time
appointed,

1Esdr 9:13
And with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we
turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.

1Esdr 9:14
Then Jonathan the son of Azael and Ezechias the son of
Theocanus accordingly took this matter upon them: and Mosollam