The altar and Temple are finished in Jerusalem. Ezra, the priest, is now ready to move from his home in Persia to Jerusalem to start worship practices again in earnest as he is the most learned priest in Judaism. As he gathers us another wave of Jews to make the move back to Israel, he discovers, to his horror, that a great sin has been committed, not only by many of the leaders, but even by some of the priests. The sin? Intermarrying with the families of foreign countries who practiced foreign religion. One of his greatest fears is that God will find the people, once again, to be unfaithful, and may take away the great gift of returning from exile and allow them to be enslaved once again.

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