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highlighted Matthew 1:21-22 ESV

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

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highlighted Matthew 1:19 ESV

And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

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highlighted Ezra 10:44 ESV

All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.

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highlighted Ezra 10:19 ESV

They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

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highlighted Ezra 10:17 ESV

and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

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highlighted Ezra 10:13 ESV

But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

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highlighted Ezra 10:10 ESV

And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.

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And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

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highlighted Ezra 10:1 ESV

While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

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highlighted Ezra 9:15 ESV

O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."

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highlighted Ezra 9:14 ESV

shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

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highlighted Ezra 9:12 ESV

Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'

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highlighted Ezra 9:10 ESV

"And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

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Sandra.Long972

highlighted Ezra 9:8 ESV

But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.

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highlighted Ezra 9:7 ESV

From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.

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highlighted Ezra 8:31 ESV

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.

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highlighted Ezra 8:23 ESV

So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

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highlighted Ezra 8:22 ESV

For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, "The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him."

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highlighted Ezra 8:21 ESV

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

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highlighted Ezra 8:18 ESV

And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;

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