Ezra continues to call the people back into a right relationship with God. One of the glaring sins committed was intermarriage with the surrounding pagan cultures - something God had forbidden. Ezra personally mourned the state of disobedience in which the nation was found; and the other leaders and rulers began to mourn as well. The people were called together, and God's plan laid out again for them. The question then, was, "What shall be done to correct the errors of the past?" A plan was developed to put away the foreign wives and children; and the people did this - even those in leadership positions.
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