21 It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and ⁿseparated himself from the ^ouncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the Lord, the God of Israel.

Ezra Prays About Intermarriage

1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not ^aseparated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.