Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race<n id="1" /> has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this!&#8221;p>

Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe<n id="1" /> gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile.<n id="2" /> Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.p>

Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed<n id="1" /> there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.p>