Ezra 10:13

But the people are many ,.... Who have been guilty of this evil:

and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without : in the street, because of the rain:

neither is this a work of one day or two ; to inquire into this affair, who they are that have taken strange wives, and to persuade or oblige them to put them away:

for we are many that have transgressed in this thing ; in marrying strange wives.