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A 4 page research paper that offers an exegetical examination of this passage. Ezra 9::10-14 is part of a heartfelt lament offered by the Prophet Ezra as an open prayer to God, which Ezra intended to awaken the Hebrew people to the seriousness of a cultural crisis that was occurring while they were in captivity in Babylon. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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said: the land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices they have filled with their impurity from one
end to the other. Therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek a treaty of friendship with
them at any time, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it to your children as an everlasting inheritance. What has happened
to us is a result of our evil deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins have deserved and have given
us a remnant like this. Shall we again break your commands and intermarry with peoples who commit such detestable practices? Would you not be angry enough with us to
destroy us, leaving us no remnant or survivor? (New International Version of the Bible). Ezra 9::10-14 is part of a heartfelt lament offered by the Prophet Ezra as
an open prayer to God, which Ezra intended to awaken the Hebrew people to the seriousness of a cultural crisis that was occurring while they were in captivity in Babylon.
The modern reader may have difficulty in understanding Ezras position. After all, the major sin that he accuses the people of committing was that they were intermarry with the Babylonian
people. Today, we live in an age where it is considered the highest virtue to how acceptance and cooperation with "persons whose beliefs and practices differ from our own,"1
However, an exegetical examination of these verses shows, that by placing them within context in the theology of the Old Testament, it becomes clear that the issue here was nothing
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