Ezra 10:9–44

⁹Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the public square of the house of God trembling because of this matter and from the rains. ¹⁰Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broke faith and married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel. ¹¹Now make a confession to Yahweh the God of your ancestors^b and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”

¹²Then all the assembly answered with a great voice and said, “It is so. We must do according to your words. ¹³But the people are many, and it is the time of rain; we are unable to stand outside. The task is not for one day or two, for we greatly rebelled in this matter. ¹⁴Please let our leaders stand for the whole assembly, and let all that are in our cities who have married foreign women come at set times, and with them the elders of and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God because of this matter is averted from us.” ¹⁵Only Jehonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah stood against this, and the Levites Meshullam and Shabbethai supported them.

¹⁶The returned exiles^c did so. Ezra the priest selected men, the heads of the families^d according to the house of their fathers, all of them by name. They sat down to examine the matter on the first day of the tenth month. ¹⁷They finished investigating all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

¹⁸There was found from the sons of the priests those who had married foreign women, from the sons of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. ¹⁹They pledged themselves^e to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt. ²⁰From the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. ²¹From the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah. ²²From the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Eleasah.

²³From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. ²⁴From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

²⁵And from Israel, the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malkijah, and Benaiah. ²⁶From the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah. ²⁷From the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza. ²⁸From the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai. ²⁹From the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. ³⁰From the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. ³¹From the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshiah, Malkijah, Shemaiah, Simeon, ³²Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. ³³From the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. ³⁴From the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, ³⁵Benaiah, Bedeiah, Keluhi, ³⁶Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, ³⁷Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu, ³⁸Bani, Binnui, Shimei, ³⁹Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, ⁴⁰Macnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, ⁴¹Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, ⁴²Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. ⁴³From the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah. ⁴⁴All of these had married foreign wives, and some from among the wives bore children.