10 Now 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. 2 And 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. 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 that ftremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done gaccording to the law. 4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: hbe of good courage, and do it. 5 Then 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. 6 Then 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. 7 And nnthey made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; 8 And 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.

9 Then 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. 10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and †have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. 11 Now 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. 12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do. 13 But 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. 14 Let 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. 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah †were employed about this matter: and tMeshullam and uShabbethai the Levite helped them. 16 And 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. 17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by v*the first day of the first month.

18 And 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. 19 And they xgave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered ya ram of the flock for their trespass. 20 And of the sons of zImmer; Hanani, and Zebadiah. 21 And of the sons of aHarim; pMaaseiah, and Elijah, and aShemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah. 22 And of the sons of bPashur; cElioenai, pMaaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

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

25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of gParosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and hMalchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and hMalchijah, and Benaiah. 26 And of the sons of iElam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah. 27 And of the sons of jZattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza. 28 Of the sons also of kBebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, lZabbai, and Athlai. 29 And of the sons of mBani; Meshullam, nMalluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth. 30 And of the sons of oPahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, pMaaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. 31 And of the sons of aHarim; Eliezer, Ishijah, qMalchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, 32 rBenjamin, nMalluch, and Shemariah. 33 Of the sons of sHashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. 34 Of the sons of tBani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel, 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh

1 *Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord aby the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, bthat he †made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath ccharged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, d(he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place †help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit eGod had fraised, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. 6 And all they that were about them ||strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with gprecious things, beside all that was willingly offered. 7 hAlso Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, iwhich Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; 8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth jby the hand of kMithredath the ltreasurer, and numbered them unto mSheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. 9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty nknives, 10 Thirty obasons of gold, silver basons of a second sort nfour hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were pfive thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of †the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

2 *Now athese are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, bwhom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; 2 Which came with cZerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, ||Seraiah, ||Reelaiah, dMordecai, Bilshan, ||Mispar, Bigvai, ||Rehum, Baanah.

The number of the men of the people of Israel: 3 The children of eParosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two. 4 The children of fShephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. 5 The children of gArah, gseven hundred seventy and five. 6 The children of hPahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua iand Joab, two thousand eight hundred and gtwelve. 7 The children of jElam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. 8 The children of kZattu, nine hundred forty and five. 9 The children of lZaccai, seven hundred and threescore. 10 The children of ||Bani, six hundred forty and mtwo. 11 The children of nBebai, six hundred twenty and mthree. 12 The children of oAzgad, a mthousand two hundred twenty and two. 13 The children of oAdonikam, six hundred sixty and msix. 14 The children of pBigvai, two thousand mfifty and six. 15 The children of pAdin, mfour hundred fifty and four. 16 The children of qAter of Hezekiah, ninety and eight. 17 The children of qBezai, three hundred twenty and rthree. 18 The children of ||Jorah, an hundred and twelve. 19 The children of sHashum, rtwo hundred twenty and three. 20 The children of ||Gibbar, ninety and five. 21 The children of tBeth-lehem, an hundred rtwenty and three. 22 The men of uNetophah, tfifty and six. 23 The men of vAnathoth, an hundred twenty and eight. 24 The children of ||Azmaveth, forty and two. 25 The children of wxKirjath-arim, xChephirah, and xBeeroth, seven hundred and forty and three. 26 The children of yRamah and yGeba, six hundred twenty and one. 27 The men of zMichmas, an hundred twenty and two. 28 The men of aBeth-el and Ai, btwo hundred twenty and three. 29 The children of cNebo, fifty and two. 30 The children of dMagbish, an hundred fifty and six. 31 The children of ethe other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. 32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty. 33 The children of fLod, ||gHadid, and fOno, seven hundred twenty and hfive. 34 The children of iJericho, three hundred forty and five. 35 The children of jSenaah, three thousand and ksix hundred and thirty.

36 The priests: the children of lJedaiah, of the house of mJeshua, nine hundred seventy and three. 37 The children of nImmer, a thousand fifty and two. 38 The children of oPashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. 39 The children of pHarim, a thousand and seventeen.

40 The Levites: the children of qJeshua and qKadmiel, of the children of ||Hodaviah, seventy and four. 41 The singers: the children of rAsaph, an hundred stwenty and eight. 42 The children of the tporters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children