5Ngunit sa gabi ng pag-aalay tumayo ako mula sa aking kahiya-hiyang kinalalagyan na suot ang aking mga gulagulanit na mga damit at balabal, lumuhod ako at itinaas ko ang aking mga kamay kay Yahweh na aking Diyos.
Ezra 9 records a crisis of covenant faithfulness. Ezra learns that the returned exiles, including priests and Levites, have intermarried with the surrounding peoples who practice idolatry. This is not a matter of ethnic purity but of spiritual fidelity: such marriages had led Isr
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