Ezra 10:9–44

⁹So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, ^atrembling because of this matter and the heavy rain.

¹⁰Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives adding to the guilt of Israel.

¹¹“Now therefore, ^amake confession to the Lord God of your fathers and ^bdo His will; and ^cseparate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

¹²Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, “That’s right! As you have said, so it is ¹our duty to do.

¹³“But there are many people; it is the rainy season and we are not able to stand in the open. Nor can the task be done in one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.

¹⁴“Let our leaders ¹represent the whole assembly and let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the ^afierce anger of our God on account of this matter is turned away from us.”

¹⁵Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah ¹opposed this, with Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.

¹⁶But the exiles did so. And ¹Ezra the priest selected men who were heads of fathers’ households for each of their father’s households, all of them by name. So they ²convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.

¹⁷They finished investigating all the men who had married foreign wives by the first day of the first month.

List of Offenders

¹⁸Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of ^aJeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.

¹⁹They ¹pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, ^athey offered a ram of the flock for their offense.

²⁰Of the sons of Immer there were Hanani and Zebadiah;

²¹and of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel and Uzziah;

²²and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad and Elasah.

²³Of Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah and Eliezer.

²⁴Of the singers there was Eliashib; and of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem and Uri.

²⁵Of Israel, of the sons of ^aParosh there were Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah and Benaiah;

²⁶and of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth and Elijah;

²⁷and of the sons of ^aZattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad and Aziza;

²⁸and of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai and Athlai;

²⁹and of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch and Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal and Jeremoth;

³⁰and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh;

³¹and of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, ^aMalchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

³²Benjamin, Malluch and Shemariah;

³³of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh and Shimei;

³⁴of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,

³⁵Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

³⁶Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

³⁷Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu,

³⁸Bani, Binnui, Shimei,

³⁹Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,

⁴⁰Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

⁴¹Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,

⁴²Shallum, Amariah and Joseph.

⁴³Of the sons of ^aNebo there were Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel and Benaiah.

⁴⁴All these had married ^aforeign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.