[1] Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself
down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of
Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people
wept very sore. [2] Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign
women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for 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 who tremble at the commandment of our
God; and let it be done according to the law. [4] Arise; for the matter
belongs to you, and we are with you: be of good courage, and do it. [5]
Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all
Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
[6] Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the
chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came there, he ate
no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them
of the captivity. [7] They made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem
to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves
together to Jerusalem; [8] and that whoever didn`t 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 assembly of the
captivity. [9] Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves
together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the
twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place
before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the
great rain. [10] Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have
trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of
Israel. [11] Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of
the land, and from the foreign women. [12] Then all the assembly answered
with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, 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 outside: neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have
greatly transgressed in this matter. [14] Let now our princes be appointed
for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have
married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of
every city, and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God be
turned from us, until this matter be dispatched. [15] Only Jonathan the son
of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this [matter]:
and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. [16] The children of
the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers`
[houses], after their fathers` houses, and all of them by their names, were
set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine
the matter. [17] They made an end with all the men who had married foreign
women by the first day of the first month. [18] Among the sons of the
priests there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the
sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and
Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. [19] They gave their hand that they would
put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock
for their guilt. [20] Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. [21] Of
the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and
Uzziah. [22] Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel,
Jozabad, and Elasah. [23] Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah
(the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. [24] Of the singers:
Eliashib. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri. [25] Of Israel: Of
the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and
Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah. [26] Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah,
Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah. [27] Of the sons
of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and
Aziza. [28] Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai. [29]
Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal,
Jeremoth. [30] Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah,
Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. [31] [of] the sons
of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, [32] Benjamin,
Malluch, Shemariah. [33] Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad,
Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei. [34] Of the sons of Bani: Maadai,
Amram, and Uel, [35] Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, [36] Vaniah, Meremoth,
Eliashib, [37] Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu, [38] and Bani, and Binnui,
Shimei, [39] and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah, [40] Machnadebai,
Shashai, Sharai, [41] Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah, [42] Shallum,
Amariah, Joseph. [43] Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad,
Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah. [44] All these had taken foreign wives;
and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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