2 For they have ataken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the bholy seed is cmixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this1 trespass.”
3 So when I heard this thing, aI tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down bastonished.
4 Then everyone who atrembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the bevening sacrifice.
5 At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and aspread out my hands to the Lord my God.
6 And I said: “O my God, I am too aashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for bour iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has cgrown up to the heavens.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Definitions of words in Ezra 9:4:
Because {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Captive {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Captive {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Israel {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Israel {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Israel {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Transgression {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
God {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Sacrifice {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
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