Ezra, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} 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 Yisra'el a very great assembly of men and women
and children; for the people wept very sore. {10:2} Shekhanyahu the
son of Yechi'el, 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 Yisra'el concerning
this thing. {10:3} 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
[1>]mitzvah[<1] of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
{10:4} Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you: be
of good courage, and do it. {10:5} Then arose Ezra, and made the
chiefs of the [2>]Kohanim[<2], the Levites, and all Yisra'el, to swear
that they would do according to this word. So they swore. {10:6} Then
Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber
of Yehochanan the son of Elyashiv: and [when] he came there, he ate no
bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them
of the captivity. {10:7} They made proclamation throughout Yehudah and
Yerushalayim to all the children of the captivity, that they should
gather themselves together to Yerushalayim; {10:8} and that whoever
didn't come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes
and the Zakenim, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself
separated from the assembly of the captivity. {10:9} Then all the men
of Yehudah and Binyamin gathered themselves together to Yerushalayim
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. {10:10} Ezra the [3>]Kohen[<3] stood up, and said to them, You
have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt
of Yisra'el. {10:11} Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the
God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from
the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women. {10:12} Then all
the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said concerning
us, so must we do. {10:13} 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. {10:14} 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 Zakenim of every city, and
the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us,
until this matter be dispatched. {10:15} Only Yonatan the son of
`Asa'el and Yachzeyah the son of Tikvah stood up against this
[matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbetai the Levite helped them. {10:16}
The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the [4>]Kohen[<4], [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. {10:17} They made
an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day
of the first month. {10:18} Among the sons of the [5>]Kohanim[<5]
there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons
of Yeshua, the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers, Ma`aseyah, and
Eli`ezer, and Yariv, and Gedalyahu. {10:19} They gave their hand that
they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a
ram of the flock for their guilt. {10:20} Of the sons of Immer: Hanani
and Zevadyah. {10:21} Of the sons of Harim: Ma`aseyah, and Eliyah, and
Shemayah, and Yechi'el, and `Uzziyah. {10:22} Of the sons of Pashchur:
Elyo`enai, Ma`aseyah, Yishma'el, Netan'el, Yozavad, and El`asah.
{10:23} Of the Levites: Yozavad, and Shim`i, and Kelayah (the same is
Kelita), Petachyah, Yehudah, and Eli`ezer. {10:24} Of the singers:
Elyashiv. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri. {10:25} Of
Yisra'el: Of the sons of Par`osh: Ramyah, and Yizziyah, and Malkiyah,
and Miyamin, and El`azar, and Malkiyah, and Benayah. {10:26} Of the
sons of `Elam: Mattanyah, Zekharyah, and Yechi'el, and `Avdi, and
Yeremot, and Eliyah. {10:27} Of the sons of Zattu: Elyo`enai,
Elyashiv, Mattanyah, and Yeremot, and Zavad, and Aziza. {10:28} Of the
sons of Bevai: Yehochanan, Hananyah, Zakkai, `Atlai. {10:29} Of the
sons of Bani: Meshullam, Mallukh, and `Adayah, Yashuv, and She'al,
Ramot. {10:30} Of the sons of Pachat-Mo'av: `Adna, and Kelal, Benayah,
Ma`aseyah, Mattanyah, Betzal'el, and Binnui, and Menashsheh. {10:31}
[of] the sons of Harim: Eli`ezer, Yishshiyah, Malkiyah, Shemayah,
Shim`on, {10:32} Binyamin, Mallukh, Shemaryahu. {10:33} Of the sons of
Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zavad, Elifelet, Yeremai, Menashsheh,
Shim`i. {10:34} Of the sons of Bani: Ma`adai, `Amram, and U'el,
{10:35} Benayah, Bedeyah, Keluhu, {10:36} Vanyah, Meremot, Elyashiv,
{10:37} Mattanyah, Mattenai, and Ya`asai, {10:38} and Bani, and
Binnui, Shim`i, {10:39} and Shelemyahu, and Natan, and `Adayah,
{10:40} Makhnadvai, Shashai, Sharai, {10:41} `Azar'el, and Shelemyahu,
Shemaryahu, {10:42} Shallum, Amaryah, Yosef. {10:43} Of the sons of
Nevo: Ye`i'el, Mattityah, Zavad, Zevina, Yaddai, and Yo'el, Benayah.
{10:44} All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives
by whom they had children.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:3} commandment
[2] {10:5} priests
[3] {10:10} priest
[4] {10:16} priest
[5] {10:18} priests
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