Tanach sobre Neemias 9:2

And when these [words (i.e., their relating of the king's edicts)] were concluded, the chiefs [of Israel] drew near to me and said: The people have not separated — Israel, and the priests, and the Levites — from the people of the lands, in their abominations — (those of) the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizites, the Yevusites, the Ammonites, the Moavites, the Egyptians, and the Emorites. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and the holy seed [i.e., Israel] have intermingled with the people of the lands, and the hand of the chiefs and their deputies has been in this faithlessness first. And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my cloak, and I tore out the hair of my head and my beard, and I sat desolate. And there gathered unto me all who were zealous for the words of the G-d of Israel, over the faithlessness of the exile, and I sat desolate until the [(daily)] evening offering. And at the evening offering I rose from my fast [(not having eaten that day)], my garment and my cloak rent, and I bowed down on my knees, and spread out my hands to the L-rd my G-d. And I said: My G-d, I am ashamed and abashed to lift, my G-d, my face to You, for our transgressions have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown until the heavens. From the days of our fathers we are in [(a state of)] great guilt, until this [very] day. And because of our transgressions, we have been delivered — our kings and our priests — into the hand of the kings of the land, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to shamefacedness as [(we see)] of this day, [(the ten tribes having been exiled, and many of the exiles remaining yet in Bavel.)] And, for the moment, we have been granted favor by the L-rd our G-d, to leave us a remnant and to give us a hold in His holy place, that our G-d enlighten our eyes and give us a little life in our servitude. For we are servants [(to Darius, king of Paras)], and in our servitude, our G-d has not forsaken us. For He has bestowed favor upon us before the kings of Paras, to give us the wherewithal to exalt the house of our G-d and to restore its ruins, and to give us a "fence" [(for the observance of His mitzvoth)] in Judah and Jerusalem. And now, what can we say, our G-d, after this, that we have forsaken Your mitzvoth that You commanded through Your servants the prophets, saying: "The land that you are coming to inherit is a defiled land, in the defilement of the people of the lands, in their abominations, with which they have filled it from mouth to mouth in their defilement. And now, Your daughters do not give to their sons, and their daughters do not take for your sons, and do not seek their peace and their good forever. So that you take hold [(in the land)] and eat of the good of the land and bequeath it to your sons forever." And after all [these evils] that have come upon us because of our evil acts and our great guilt, [now] that You, our G-d, have kept [Yourself from exacting punishment], beneath the deserts of our transgressions, and You have left us such a remnant, shall we revert to the violation of Your mitzvoth, to intermarry with the peoples of these abominations! Will You not rage at us until [(the point of)] destruction, until [there is left of us] no trace or remnant? O L-rd, G-d of Israel, You are righteous, for we have been left as a remnant as of this day. Behold, we are before You in our guilt, for we [have] no merits [with which] to stand before You against [i.e., to counter] this transgression.

And in Ezra's praying and confessing, crying and fallen before the house of G-d, there gathered before him of Israel a vast assemblage of men and women and children, the people weeping profusely. And Shechanyah the son of Yechiel of the sons of Eilam called out and said to Ezra: We have been faithless to our G-d and have taken into our houses foreign women of the peoples of the land. But now, there is hope for Israel for this [i.e., We can send away these women and the children born of them.] And now, let us make a covenant with our G-d to send out all the [foreign] women and those born to them, by the will of the L-rd. And those who are zealous for the mitzvah of our G-d [will do so]; and he will be acting in accordance with the Torah. Arise, for the thing depends upon you, and we will be with you; strengthen yourself and do! And Ezra arose and adjured the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and (of) all of Israel to act in accordance with this thing, and they swore. And Ezra rose from before the house of G-d and went to the chamber of Yehonathan the son of Elyashiv. And he went there [(fasting)]. He ate no bread and drank no water, for he was [still] mourning the faithlessness of the exile. And they made proclamation in Judah and in Jerusalem for all the sons of the exile to gather in Jerusalem. And (they proclaimed that) anyone who would not come by [the end of] three days, as mandated by the chiefs and the elders, all of his property would be confiscated and he would be separated from the congregation of the exile. And all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem at [the end of] three days, in the ninth month [Kislev], in the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the thoroughfare of the house of G-d, trembling over the thing [(the transgression)] and over the rains [descending] upon them. And Ezra the priest arose and said: You were faithless and took foreign women into your houses to add to the guilt of Israel. And now, make confession to the L-rd, the G-d of your fathers, and do His will, and separate yourselves from the people of the land and from the foreign women. And all the congregation answered and said in a loud voice: Yes, as you say, so must we do. But the people are many, and it is a time of rain, and they have no strength to stand outside, and the work is not for one day and not for two, for we have offended profusely in this thing. Let, now, our chiefs stand with all the congregation, and let all [i.e., each one] in our cities who has taken foreign women into his house come at designated times, and with them, the elders of each city and its judges, until the wrath of our G-d is removed from us, until [the elimination of] this thing. But Jonathan the son of Asahel and Yachzeyah the son of Tikvah stood up against this, and Meshulam and Shabthai the Levite abetted them. And the sons of the exile did so [(as exhorted to do)], and there were set aside [(to effect this)] Ezra the priest (and) men who were the heads of the families of their fathers' houses, all men of renown; and they convened on the first day of the tenth month [(Teveth)] to search out the matter. And they completed [dealing with] all the men who had taken foreign women into their houses by the first day of the first month [(Nissan), all these women having been sent away by that time]. And there were found of the sons of the priests who had taken foreign women into their houses, of the sons of Yeshua the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers, Ma'aseyah and Eliezer and Yariv and Gedalyah. And they took counsel to send away their wives, and they were made to bring (as an offering) a ram of the flock for their guilt [(an extraordinary ruling, for that contingency)]. And ("there were found of the sons of the priests, etc."), of the sons of Immer: Chanani and Zevadyah. And of the sons of Charim: Ma'aseyah and Eliyah and Shemayah and Yechiel and Uziyah. And of the sons of Pashchur: Elyoeinai, Ma'aseyah, Yishmael, Nethanel, Yozavad, and Elassa. And of the Levites: Yozavad and Shim'i and Kelayah (the same as "K'lita"), Pethachyah, Yehudah, and Eliezer. And of the singers, Elyashiv; and of the gatekeepers, Shalum and Telem and Uri. And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh, Ramyah and Yiziyah and Malkiyah and Miyamin and Elazar and Malchiyah and Benayah. And of the sons of Eilam: Matanyah, Zecharyah and Yechiel and Avdi and Yeremoth and Eliyah. And of the sons of Zatu: Elyoeinai, Elyashiv, Matanyah, and Yeremoth and Zavad and Aziza. And of the sons of Bevai: Jonathan, Chananiah, Zabbai, Athlai. And of the sons of Bani: Meshulam, Maluch, and Adayah, Yashuv, Sha'al, Yeramoth. And of the sons of Pachath: Moav, Adna, Chelal, Benayah, Ma'aseyah, Matanyah, Betzalel, and Binnui and Menasheh. And the sons of Charim: Eliezer, Yeshiyah, Malkiyah, Shemayah, Shimon, Binyamin, Maluch, Shemaryah. Of the sons of Chashum: Matnai, Matatah, Zavad, Elifelet, Yereimai, Menasheh, Shim'i. Of the sons of Bani: Ma'adai, Amram, and Uel, Benayah, Bedyah, Keluhu, Vanyah, Meremoth, Elyashiv, Matanyah, Matnai, and Ya'asai, and Bani and Binnui, Shim'i, and Shelemyah and Nathan and Adayah, Machnadvai, Shashai, Sarai, Azarel and Shelemyahu, Shemaryah, Shalum, Amaryah, Yosef. Of the sons of Nevo: Yeiel, Matithyah, Zavad, Zevina, Yaadai and Yoel, Benayah. All these married foreign women, some of them having (foreign) wives of whom they had children [(and they sent away both the wives and the children)].