All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away
with their children.

1Esdr 9:37
And the priests and Levites, and they that were of Israel,
dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the country, in the first day of the
seventh month: so the children of Israel were in their
habitations.

1Esdr 9:38
And the whole multitude came together with one accord into
the broad place of the holy porch toward the east:

1Esdr 9:39
And they spake unto Esdras the priest and reader, that he
would bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord God of
Israel.

1Esdr 9:40
So Esdras the chief priest brought the law unto the whole
multitude from man to woman, and to all the priests, to hear law
in the first day of the seventh month.

1Esdr 9:41
And he read in the broad court before the holy porch from
morning unto midday, before both men and women; and the
multitude gave heed unto the law.

1Esdr 9:42
And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon a