THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Second Book of Esdras (Author Nehemias or Esdras or both)

13:25And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:


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