These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezra 9
Tanakh 15 verses
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Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying: ‘The people of , and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples 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.
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Nehemiah 9:2 Leviticus 18:24-30 Deuteronomy 12:30-31 Exodus 33:16 Ezra 10:8 2 Chronicles 33:2 Psalm 106:35 Isaiah 52:11 Nehemiah 4:7 1 Kings 11:1 Exodus 23:23 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 Nehemiah 4:3 Deuteronomy 23:3-5 Genesis 15:19-21 Genesis 15:16 Numbers 23:9 Jeremiah 26:16 Leviticus 18:3 Deuteronomy 18:9 Romans 2:17-25 Nehemiah 13:1-3 Numbers 25:1-3 Jeremiah 26:10 Ezra 10:10-11 Deuteronomy 20:17-18 Exodus 13:5 1 Kings 11:5-7 Ezra 6:21-22 - 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons; so that the seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands; yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been first in this faithlessness.’
- 3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down appalled.
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Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the of , because of the faithlessness of them of the captivity; and I sat appalled until the evening .
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- 5 And at the evening I arose up from my fasting, even with my garment and my mantle rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto my ;
- 6 and I said: ‘O my , I am ashamed and blush to lift up my to Thee, my ; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the .
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Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to spoiling, and to confusion of , as it is this day.
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2 Chronicles 29:6 Daniel 9:5-8 Lamentations 5:7 1 Kings 9:6-9 2 Kings 18:9-12 Deuteronomy 28:15-68 1 Samuel 12:15 2 Kings 17:5-8 Deuteronomy 29:22-28 Nehemiah 9:30 Daniel 9:11-14 2 Chronicles 36:16-19 2 Chronicles 30:7 Zechariah 1:4-5 Deuteronomy 30:17-19 Nehemiah 9:32-34 Numbers 32:14 Leviticus 26:14-46 Psalm 106:6-7 Jeremiah 25:18 Jeremiah 44:22 Acts 7:51-52 Deuteronomy 31:20-22 Nehemiah 9:36-37 Matthew 23:30-33 2 Kings 24:1-4 Deuteronomy 4:25-28 Deuteronomy 32:15-28 -
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And now for a little moment hath been shown from our , to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in His place, that our may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
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Psalm 13:3 Ecclesiastes 12:11 Ezekiel 37:11-14 Romans 11:5-6 Ezra 9:13-15 Nehemiah 9:31 Psalm 85:6 Job 33:30 Isaiah 57:15 1 Samuel 14:29 Zechariah 10:4 Habakkuk 3:2 Jeremiah 44:14 1 Samuel 14:27 Psalm 34:5 2 Kings 19:30-31 Isaiah 22:23-25 Nehemiah 1:11 Isaiah 56:5 Ezra 9:9 Psalm 138:7 Romans 9:27 Jeremiah 42:2 Zechariah 8:6 Ezekiel 6:8-9 Zechariah 8:12 Isaiah 1:9 Ezekiel 14:22 Revelation 3:12 2 Kings 19:4 Hosea 6:2 - 9 For we are bondmen; yet our hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our , and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a fence in and in .
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And now, O our , what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken Thy commandments,
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- 11 which Thou hast commanded by Thy servants the prophets, saying: The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, wherewith they have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.
- 12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
- 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that Thou our hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,
- 14 shall we again break Thy commandments, and make marriages with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not Thou be angry with us till Thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
- 15 O , the of , Thou art righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day; behold, we are before Thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before Thee because of this.’