1 Esdras 8:68LXX
Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 68 of 96
"Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said,"
In context
66threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace-offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
67And they delivered the king's commandments unto the king's stewards, and to the governors of Celosyria and Phenice; and they honoured the people and the temple of God.
68Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said,
69The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and the Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor their pollutions from the Gentiles, to wit, the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.
70For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity.