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.

11 Now then make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. ^zSeparate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”