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The adescendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and bconfessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
a
Ezra 10:11, Nehemiah 13:3
Ezra 10
11
"Now therefore, amake confession to the Lord God of your fathers and bdo His will; and cseparate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."
Nehemiah 13
3
So when they heard the law, athey excluded ball foreigners from Israel.