• Ezra 9:2
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 2 They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons.+ Now they, the holy offspring,*+ have become mingled with the peoples of the lands.+ The princes and the deputy rulers have been the foremost offenders in this unfaithfulness.”

  • Ezra 9:2
    The Bible in Living English

    • 2 for they have taken daughters of theirs as wives for themselves and their sons, and mixed the sacred blood with the peoples of the countries; and the hands of the chiefs and the magnates have been first in this disloyalty.”

  • Ezra 9:2
    American Standard Version

    • 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

  • Ezra 9:2
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 2 for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have intermingled themselves among the peoples of the lands,—and the hand of the rulers and the deputies hath in this unfaithfulness been foremost.

  • Ezra 9:2
    King James Version

    • 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.