Ezra 10:11-12

10:11 Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents ¹  and from these foreign wives.”

10:12 All the assembly replied in a loud voice: “We will do just as you have said! ² 

¹ tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”

² tn Heb “thus according to your word [singular = Qere] concerning us, to do.”