Ezra 4:16

4:16 We therefore are informing the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, you will not retain control ¹  of this portion of Trans-Euphrates.”

Ezra 10:11

10:11 Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents ²  and from these foreign wives.”

[4:16]  ¹ tn Aram “will not be to you.”

[10:11]  ² tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”