Ezra 10:11-12

Make confession unto the Lord; and do his pleasure You have sinfully pleased yourselves, now please God, by your obedience to his command. And separate yourselves from your strange wives There being no mention made here of putting away their children, but only their wives, it has been thought by some that they kept their children, and, by circumcision, dedicated them to God. For, though Shechaniah proposed the putting them away, yet it may seem not improbable that Ezra, to whom the matter was referred, when he came to order what should be actually done, mitigated the severity of the proposal. As thou hast said, so must we do They saw no other remedy, and so submitted to what he required.