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The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
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Verse 2. Stranger; idolatrous women. Bible.—True repentance requires the works of mortification, and particularly the removal of all occasions of sin and disorderly pleasures. Worthington.—The reformation had been commenced under Esdras, but some had relapsed. 1 Ezra 10:3. Calmet.—The true born Israelites would have no society with the sons of infidels. Tirinus.—Fathers, that they might not be punished for them. Exodus 20:5. Calmet.
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