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Ezra 9:1

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the princes: Ezra 10:8; Jeremiah 26:10, Jeremiah 26:16

have not separated: Ezra 6:21-22, Ezra 10:10-11; Exodus 33:16; Numbers 23:9; Nehemiah 9:2, Nehemiah 13:3; Isaiah 52:11; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18

doing according: Leviticus 18:3, Leviticus 18:24-30; Deuteronomy 12:30-31, Deuteronomy 18:9; 2 Chronicles 33:2; Psalms 106:35; Romans 2:17-25

of the Canaanites: Genesis 15:16, Genesis 15:19-21; Exodus 23:23; Deuteronomy 20:17-18

Ammonites: Deuteronomy 23:3-5; 1 Kings 11:1, 1 Kings 11:5-7; Nehemiah 4:3, Nehemiah 4:7, Nehemiah 13:1-3

Moabites: Numbers 25:1-3

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