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So they swore.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Foreign Wives and Their Children Rejected</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12259a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> He did not eat bread or drink water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>and that if any did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all their property should be forfeited, and they themselves banned from the congregation of the exiles.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Then all the people of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Now make confession to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> the God of your ancestors, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>But 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 many of us have transgressed in this matter. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Let our officials represent the whole assembly, and let all in our towns who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every town, until the fierce wrath of our God on this account is averted from us.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levites supported them.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12269b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> heads of families, according to their families, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>By the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>There were found of the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women, of the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>They pledged themselves to send away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Of the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Of the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Of the descendants of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>And of Israel: of the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12278c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and Benaiah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Of the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Of the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Of the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Of the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Of the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Of the descendants of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>Of the descendants of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Of the descendants of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>Of the descendants of Binnui:<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12291d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> Shimei, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>Of the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>All these had married foreign women, and they sent them away with their children.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12297e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezra 10:6">Ezra 10:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>1 Esdras 9.2: Heb <i>where he went</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezra 10:16">Ezra 10:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>1 Esdras 9.16: Syr: Heb <i>And there were selected Ezra,</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezra 10:25">Ezra 10:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>1 Esdras 9.26 Gk: Heb <i>Malchijah</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezra 10:38">Ezra 10:38</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>Bani, Binnui</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezra 10:44">Ezra 10:44</a> <span class='footnote-text'>1 Esdras 9.36; meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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