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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separateda themselves from the people of the lands, doingc according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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Ezra 6:21• ²¹{i}And the children of Israel that were come back out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah the God of Israel, did eat;{/i} (Ezra 6:21)

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Neh. 9:2• ²And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers{i}. (Neh. 9:2)

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2 Cor. 6:17• ¹⁷Wherefore come out from the midst of them and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch no unclean thing; and I will receive you (2 Cor. 6:17)

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Deut. 12:30‑31• ³⁰{i}take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow after them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.{/i}
³¹{i}Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every thing that is abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burned in the fire to their gods.{/i} (Deut. 12:30‑31)

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Rom. 2:17‑25• ¹⁷But if thou art named a Jew, and restest on law, and boastest in God,
¹⁸and knowest the will, and provest the things that differ, being instructed out of the law,
¹⁹and hast confidence that thou thyself art a guide of blind, a light of those in darkness,
²⁰an instructor of foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law:
²¹thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?
²²thou that sayest not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
²³Thou who boastest in law, through the transgression of the law dost thou dishonour God?
²⁴For the name of God on your account is blasphemed among the Gentiles, even as it is written.
²⁵For circumcision indeed profiteth if thou do law; but if thou be a transgressor of law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. (Rom. 2:17‑25)

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Ammon; Ammonites; Children of Ammon,

Amorite,

Egyptians,

Hittites,

Israel,

Jebusites,

Levites,

Perizzite,

Priest; Priesthood,

Prince; Princess,

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1-4: Ezra mourns for the affinity of the people with strangers.

5-15: He prays unto God, with confession of sins.

the princes.

Ezra 10:8• ⁸and that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away. (Ezra 10:8)

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Jer. 26:10,16• ¹⁰When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of Jehovah, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of Jehovah's house.
¹⁶Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God. (Jer. 26:10,16)

have not separated.

Ezra 6:21‑22• ²¹{i}And the children of Israel that were come back out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah the God of Israel, did eat;{/i}
²²{i}and they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for Jehovah had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.{/i} (Ezra 6:21‑22)

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Ezra 10:10‑11• ¹⁰{i}And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them{/i}, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, {i}to increase the trespass of Israel{/i}.
¹¹Now, therefore, make confession unto Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. (Ezra 10:10‑11)

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Ex. 33:16• ¹⁶{i}And how shall it be known then that I have found grace in thine eyes—I and thy people? Is it not by thy going with us? so shall we be distinguished, I and thy people, from every people that is on the face of the earth.{/i} (Ex. 33:16)

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Num. 23:9• ⁹For from the top of the rocks I see him,{HR}And from the hills I behold him:{HR}Lo, the people shall dwell alone,{HR}And shall not be reckoned among the nations. (Num. 23:9)

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Neh. 9:2• ²And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers{i}. (Neh. 9:2)

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Neh. 13:3• ³{i}And{/i} it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. (Neh. 13:3)

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Isa. 52:11• ¹¹Depart, depart, go out from thence, touch no unclean [thing]; go out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of Jehovah. (Isa. 52:11)

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2 Cor. 6:14‑18• ¹⁴Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers: for what partnership [is there] for righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship [hath] light with darkness?
¹⁵and what consent of Christ with Beliar? or what part for a believer with an unbeliever?
¹⁶and what agreement for God's temple with idols? For ye are [the] living God's temple, even as God said, I will dwell and walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
¹⁷Wherefore come out from the midst of them and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch no unclean thing; and I will receive you
¹⁸and will be to you for Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:14‑18)

doing according.

Lev. 18:3,24‑30• ³After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, ye shall not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan whither I bring you, ye shall not do; neither shall ye walk in their customs.
²⁴Make not yourselves unclean in any of these things; for in all these have made themselves unclean the nations which I cast out from before you.
²⁵And the land hath become unclean: and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
²⁶But ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, and shall not do any of all these abominations, —the homeborn and the stranger that sojourneth among you
²⁷(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who [were] before you, and the land hath been made unclean);
²⁸that the land vomit not you out also, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
²⁹For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do [them] shall be cut off from among their people.
³⁰Therefore shall ye observe my charge, that ye do not [any] of these abominable customs which were done before you; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean therein: I [am] Jehovah your God. (Lev. 18:3,24‑30)

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Deut. 12:30‑31• ³⁰{i}take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow after them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.{/i}
³¹{i}Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every thing that is abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burned in the fire to their gods.{/i} (Deut. 12:30‑31)

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Deut. 18:9• ⁹{i}When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.{/i} (Deut. 18:9)

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2 Chron. 33:2• ²{i}And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.{/i} (2 Chron. 33:2)

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Psa. 106:35• ³⁵But they mingled with the nations{HR}And learned their doings. (Psa. 106:35)

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Rom. 2:17‑25• ¹⁷But if thou art named a Jew, and restest on law, and boastest in God,
¹⁸and knowest the will, and provest the things that differ, being instructed out of the law,
¹⁹and hast confidence that thou thyself art a guide of blind, a light of those in darkness,
²⁰an instructor of foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law:
²¹thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?
²²thou that sayest not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
²³Thou who boastest in law, through the transgression of the law dost thou dishonour God?
²⁴For the name of God on your account is blasphemed among the Gentiles, even as it is written.
²⁵For circumcision indeed profiteth if thou do law; but if thou be a transgressor of law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. (Rom. 2:17‑25)

of the Canaanites.

Gen. 15:16,19‑21• ¹⁶But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
¹⁹the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
²⁰and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
²¹and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Gen. 15:16,19‑21)

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Ex. 23:23• ²³{i}For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.{/i} (Ex. 23:23)

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Deut. 20:17‑18• ¹⁷{i}but shalt utterly devote them to destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;{/i}
¹⁸{i}that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, so that ye sin against Jehovah your God.{/i} (Deut. 20:17‑18)

Ammonites.

Deut. 23:3‑5• ³An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of Jehovah; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of Jehovah forever;
⁴because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, {i}and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.{/i}
⁵{i}But Jehovah thy God would not listen to Balaam; and Jehovah thy God turned the curse into blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee{/i}. (Deut. 23:3‑5)

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1 Kings 11:1,5‑7• ¹But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
⁵For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
⁶And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.
⁷Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. (1 Kings 11:1,5‑7)

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Neh. 4:3,7• ³{i}And Tobijah the Ammonite was by him, and he said,{/i} Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
⁷{i}And it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired, that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,{/i} (Neh. 4:3,7)

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Neh. 13:1‑3• ¹On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God forever;
²because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, {i}and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into blessing{/i}.
³{i}And{/i} it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. (Neh. 13:1‑3)

Moabites.

Num. 25:1‑3• ¹{i}And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.{/i}
²{i}And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.{/i}
³{i}And Israel joined himself to Baal-Peor; and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.{/i} (Num. 25:1‑3)

• They were to be holy, not because they were better than everyone else, but because Jehovah was their God....They were a sanctified people, separated unto Jehovah, and they were not to behave like the nations. (“The Condition of the Remnant in Judea -Ezra 9:1-2” by N. Simon)

• How vividly this translates to our present day. God’s injunction to be holy remains true as we have already observed: “Be ye holy; for I am holy” (1 Pet. 1:16), and why? Not because we are under law, but because we have “been redeemed ... with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Pet. 1:18-19). (“The Condition of the Remnant in Judea -Ezra 9:1-2” by N. Simon)

• It is as if Satan, having gained the advantage over them, would mock at and triumph over them by displaying the most horrible forms of the flesh. In the case before us, it was not only the abominations of the Canaanites, etc. (the former inhabitants of the land), but also those of the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites, into which the children of the captivity had fallen, that is, into every possible form of corruption. (“The Book of Ezra: Restoration From Babylon: Ezra 9” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Now when these things were completed, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;

W. Kelly Translation

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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.