The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or
two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
EZR 10:14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all
them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed
times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,
until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
EZR 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of
Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the
Levite helped them.
EZR 10:16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the
priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their
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