91 While Ezra was bowing in prayer in front of the Temple, weeping and confessing these sins, a large group of people from Jerusalem — men, women, and children — gathered round him, all of them weeping bitterly.
92 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the Israelites, said to Ezra, “We have sinned against the Lord by marrying foreign women, but even so, there is still hope for Israel.
93 Now we must make a solemn promise to the Lord that we will send all these foreign women and their children away.
94 We will do what you and the others who obey the Law of the Lord advise us to do.
95 It is your responsibility to act. We are behind you, so go ahead and get it done.”
96 So Ezra began by making the leaders of the priests, of the Levites, and of the rest of the people take an oath that they would divorce their foreign wives.