Officials report covenant unfaithfulness; depict their report as report

1When these things were finished, the officials approached me, saying, “The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations—the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.”

2For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And the hand of the officials and the deputies has been foremost in this unfaithfulness.