But his people's only answer was this: "Expel them from your land! Verily, they are folk who make themselves out to be pure!"

And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!"

And the answer of his people was only that they said (one to another): Turn them out of your township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure.

And the answer of his people was no other than that they said: Turn them out of your town; surely they are a people who aspire to purity!

But the answer of his people was only that they said, "Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure."