Ezra 10 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The People Confess Their Sin

Ezr 10:1While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

Ezr 10:2

Ezr 10:2And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Ezr 10:3

Ezr 10:3Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord[fn] and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.

Ezr 10:4

Ezr 10:4Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”

Ezr 10:5

Ezr 10:5Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.

Ezr 10:6

Ezr 10:6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night,[fn] neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

Ezr 10:7

Ezr 10:7And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,

Ezr 10:8

Ezr 10:8and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.

Ezr 10:9

Ezr 10:9Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.

Ezr 10:10

Ezr 10:10And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.

Ezr 10:11

Ezr 10:11Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

Ezr 10:12

Ezr 10:12Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said.

Ezr 10:13

Ezr 10:13But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

Ezr 10:14

Ezr 10:14Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”

Ezr 10:15

Ezr 10:15Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.

Ezr 10:16

Ezr 10:16Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men,[fn] heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;

Ezr 10:17

Ezr 10:17and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

Those Guilty of Intermarriage

Ezr 10:18

Ezr 10:18Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.

Ezr 10:19

Ezr 10:19They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.[fn]

Ezr 10:20

Ezr 10:20Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

Ezr 10:21

Ezr 10:21Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.

Ezr 10:22

Ezr 10:22Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

Ezr 10:23

Ezr 10:23Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

Ezr 10:24

Ezr 10:24Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

Ezr 10:25

Ezr 10:25And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah,[fn] and Benaiah.

Ezr 10:26

Ezr 10:26Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

Ezr 10:27

Ezr 10:27Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

Ezr 10:28

Ezr 10:28Of the sons of Bebai were Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

Ezr 10:29

Ezr 10:29Of the sons of Bani were Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

Ezr 10:30

Ezr 10:30Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

Ezr 10:31

Ezr 10:31Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

Ezr 10:32

Ezr 10:32Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.

Ezr 10:33

Ezr 10:33Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

Ezr 10:34

Ezr 10:34Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,

Ezr 10:35

Ezr 10:35Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

Ezr 10:36

Ezr 10:36Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

Ezr 10:37

Ezr 10:37Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu.

Ezr 10:38

Ezr 10:38Of the sons of Binnui:[fn] Shimei,

Ezr 10:39

Ezr 10:39Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,

Ezr 10:40

Ezr 10:40Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

Ezr 10:41

Ezr 10:41Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,

Ezr 10:42

Ezr 10:42Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

Ezr 10:43

Ezr 10:43Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.

Ezr 10:44

Ezr 10:44All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.[fn]

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ESV Footnotes

(10:3)

Or of the Lord

(10:6)

Probable reading; Hebrew where he went

(10:16)

Syriac; Hebrew And there were selected Ezra…

(10:19)

Or as their reparation

(10:25)

Septuagint; Hebrew Malchijah

(10:38)

Septuagint; Hebrew Bani, Binnui

(10:44)

Or and they put them away with their children

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Ezra 10 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The People Confess Their Sin

Those Guilty of Intermarriage

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