Ezra 10:10-14

10And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have taken foreign wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

11And now make confession to Jehovah the 1God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign wives.

12And the whole congregation answered and said with a loud voice, Yes, it is for us to do according to thy words.

13But the people are many, and it is a time of pouring rain, and it is not possible to stand without: neither is this a work for one day or two; for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.

14Let now our princes, while this matter is going on, stand for all the congregation, and let all those that have taken foreign wives in our cities come at the appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce anger of our 2God be turned from us.