Ezra 9: 1

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EZRA

CHAPTER 9

1 Now when these things were done, the ^aprinces came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not ^bseparated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their ^cabominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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1a	IE officials.
b	Alma 5: 57. 57 And now I say unto you, all you that are desirous to follow the voice of the ^agood shepherd, come ye out from the wicked, and be ye ^bseparate, and touch not their unclean things; and behold, their names shall be ^cblotted out, that the names of the wicked shall not be numbered among the names of the righteous, that the word of God may be fulfilled, which saith: The names of the wicked shall not be mingled with the names of my people;
c	Deut. 12: 31 (30-31) 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every ^aabomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have ^bburnt in the ^cfire to their gods. D&C 3: 18. 18 And this ^atestimony shall come to the knowledge of the ^bLamanites, and the Lemuelites, and the Ishmaelites, who ^cdwindled in unbelief because of the ^diniquity of their fathers, whom the Lord has suffered to destroy their ^ebrethren the Nephites, because of their ^finiquities and their abominations.