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Verse 1

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

Verse 2

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, "We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Verse 3

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

Verse 4

Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it."

Verse 5

Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

Verse 6

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.

Verse 7

They made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;

Verse 8

and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

Verse 9

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

Verse 10

Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, "You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

Verse 11

Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women."

Verse 12

Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

Verse 13

But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside; neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

Verse 14

Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter is resolved."

Verse 15

Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

Verse 16

The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Verse 17

They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

Verse 18

Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Verse 19

They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Verse 20

Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

Verse 21

Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

Verse 22

Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

Verse 23

Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

Verse 24

Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

Verse 25

Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

Verse 26

Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

Verse 27

Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

Verse 28

Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.

Verse 29

Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.

Verse 30

Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

Verse 31

[of] the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

Verse 32

Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.

Verse 33

Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.

Verse 34

Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

Verse 35

Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

Verse 36

Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

Verse 37

Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,

Verse 38

and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,

Verse 39

and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,

Verse 40

Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

Verse 41

Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

Verse 42

Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.

Verse 43

Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.

Verse 44

All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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