Ezra 10

10Now ^awhen Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and ^bcasting himself down ^cbefore the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people ^†wept very sore. ²And Shechaniah the son of ^dJehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have ^etrespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. ³Now 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 that ^ftremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done ^gaccording to the law. ⁴Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: ^hbe of good courage, and do it. ⁵Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, ⁱto swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware. ⁶Then Ezra rose up ^kfrom before the house of God, and went into the ^lchamber of ^mJohanan the son of ^mEliashib: and when he came thither, he did ⁿeat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away. ⁷And ⁿⁿthey made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; ⁸And that whosoever would not 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 congregation of those that had been carried away.

⁹Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, ^otrembling because of this matter, and for ^†the great rain. ¹⁰And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and ^†have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. ¹¹Now therefore ^pmake confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and ^qseparate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. ¹²Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do. ¹³But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for ^||we are many that have transgressed in this thing. ¹⁴Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at ^rappointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until ^sthe fierce wrath of our God ^||for this matter be turned from us. ¹⁵Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah ^†were employed about this matter: and ^tMeshullam and ^uShabbethai the Levite helped them. ¹⁶And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in ^vthe first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. ¹⁷And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by ^v*the first day of the first month.

¹⁸And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of ^wJeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. ¹⁹And they ^xgave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered ^ya ram of the flock for their trespass. ²⁰And of the sons of ^zImmer; Hanani, and Zebadiah. ²¹And of the sons of ^aHarim; ^pMaaseiah, and Elijah, and ^aShemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah. ²²And of the sons of ^bPashur; ^cElioenai, ^pMaaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

²³Also of the Levites; ^dJozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is ^eKelita,) ^fPethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. ²⁴Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

²⁵Moreover of Israel: of the sons of ^gParosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and ^hMalchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and ^hMalchijah, and Benaiah. ²⁶And of the sons of ⁱElam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah. ²⁷And of the sons of ^jZattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza. ²⁸Of the sons also of ^kBebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, ^lZabbai, and Athlai. ²⁹And of the sons of ^mBani; Meshullam, ⁿMalluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth. ³⁰And of the sons of ^oPahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, ^pMaaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. ³¹And of the sons of ^aHarim; Eliezer, Ishijah, ^qMalchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, ^32rBenjamin, ⁿMalluch, and Shemariah. ³³Of the sons of ^sHashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. ³⁴Of the sons of ^tBani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel, ³⁵Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh, ³⁶Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, ³⁷Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau, ³⁸And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, ³⁹And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and ^uAdaiah, ^40||Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, ⁴¹Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah, ⁴²Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. ⁴³Of the sons of ^vNebo; Jeiel, ^wMattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah. ⁴⁴All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives ^xby whom they had children.