Separated — From all unnecessary society with the Heathens, and particularly from those strange women whom some of them had married. For though Ezra had done this formerly, yet, it seems, there were some criminals, without his knowledge, or, these were some new delinquents, that since that time had fallen into the same error, and shewed the truth of their repentance by forsaking their beloved sins, and dearest relations.
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Nehemiah 9:2
2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers,a and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.