New Revised Standard Version
When the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.

Contemporary English Version
Following the reading of the Law of Moses, the people of Israel started sending away anyone who had any foreign ancestors.

New American Bible
When they had heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent from Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.

And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.

when they.

Psalm 19:7-11 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 119:9,11 By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. . . .

Proverbs 6:23 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

that they.

Nehemiah 9:2 And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.

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.

James 1:27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

the mixed.

Exodus 12:38 And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

Numbers 11:4 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?