Ezra 10:12
Good News Translation
The people shouted in answer, "We will do whatever you say."

New Revised Standard Version
Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone in the crowd shouted: You're right! We will do what you say.

New American Bible
In answer, the whole assembly cried out with a loud voice: “Yes, it is our duty to do as you say!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice: According to thy word unto us, so be it done.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice: According to thy word unto us, so be it done.

Ezra 10:44 All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them women that had borne children.

,) each of whom doubtless received a portion according to the circumstances of her husband, and was not turned away desolate. Humanity must have dictated this, and no law of God is contrary to humanity.)

so must we do

Ezra 10:3,4 Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord, and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be done according to the law. . . .

Nehemiah 13:23 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Psalm 78:37,57 But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant. . . .

Context
The People's Confession of Sin
11And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives. 12And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice: According to thy word unto us, so be it done.13But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and we are not able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for we have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)…
Cross References
Ezra 10:11
And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.

Ezra 10:13
But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and we are not able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for we have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)

Ezra 10:11
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