Ezra 10:9–44

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.