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Ezra 10

1 The people repent and turn, and put away their strange wives.
1.Whiles *Ezrá prayed thus, and aconfessed him self weeping, and falling down before the house of God, there assembled unto him of Israél a very great Congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept with a great lamentation.
2.Then Shechaniáh the son of Jehiél one of the sons of Elám, answered, and said to Ezrá, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land, yet now there is bhope in Israél concerning this.
3.Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God, to put away call the wives (and such as are born of them) according to the counsel of the Lord, & of those that fear the commandments of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
4.Arise: for the matter dbelongeth unto thee: we also wil be with thee: be of comfort and do it.
5.¶ Then arose Ezrá, and caused the chief Priests, and Levites, and all Israél, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they sware.
6.*And Ezrá rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanán the son of Eliashíb: he went even thither, but he did eat neither bread, nor dronke water: for he mourned, because of the transgression of them of the captivity.
7.And they caused a proclamation to go throughout Judáh and Jerusalém, unto ^all them of the captivity, that they should assemble them selves unto Jerusalém.
8.And whosoever would not come within three days according to the counsel of the princes and Elders, all his substance should be ^forfeit, and he should be separate from the Congregation of them of the captivity.
9.¶ Then all the men of Judáh and Benjamin assembled them selves unto Jerusalém within three days, which was the twentieth day of the eninth month, and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling for this matter, and for the frain.
10.And Ezrá the Priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to gincrease the trespass of Israél.
11.Now therefore hgive praise unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his wil and separate your selves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
12.And all the Congregation answered, and said with a loud voice, So wil we do according to thy words unto us.
13.But the people are many, and it is a rainy weather, and we are not able to stand without, neither is it the work of one day or two: for we are many that have offended in this thing.
14.Let our rulers stand therefore ibefore all the Congregation, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities, come at the time appointed, and with them the Elders of every city and the judges thereof, til the fierce wrath of our God for this matter turn away from us.
15.Then were appointed Jonathán the son of Asah-él, and Jahaziáh the son of Tikuah over this matter, and Meshullám and Shabbethái the Levites helped them.
16.And they of the captivity did so and kdeparted, even Ezrá the Priest, and the men that were chief fathers to the family of their father’s by name, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
17.And until the first day of the first month they were finishing the business with all the men that had taken strange wives,
18.And of the sons of the Priests there were men found, that had taken strange wives, to wit, of the sons of Jeshúa, the son of Jozadák, and of his brethren, Maaseráh, A Eliézer, and Jaríb and Gedaliáh.
19.And they gave ltheir hands, that they would put away their wives, & they that had trespassed, gave a ram for their trespass.
20.And of the sons of Immér, Honaní, and Zebadiáh.
21.And of the sons of Harím, Maaseiáh, and Elijáh, and Shemaiáh, and Jehiél, and Uzziáh.
22.And of the sons of Pashúr, Elioenái, Maaseiáh, Ishmaél, Nethaneél, Jozabáb, and Elasáh.
23.And of the Levites, Jozabád and Shimeí and Kelaiáh, (which is Kelitáh) Pethahiáh, Judáh and Ebézer.
24.And of the singers, Eliashíb. And of the porters, Shallúm, and Telém, and Urí.
25.And of mIsraél: of the sons of Parósh, Ramiáh, and Jesiáh, and Malchiáh, and Miámin, and Eleazár, and Malchijáh, and Benaiáh.
26.And of the sons of Elám, Mattaniáh, Zechariáh, and Jehiél, and Abdí, and Jeremóth, and Eliáh.
27.And of the sons of Zattú, Elioenái, Eliashíb, Mattaniáh, and Jerimóth, and Zabád, and Azizá.
28.And of the sons of Bebái, Jehohanán, Hananiah, Zabbái, Athlái.
29.And of the sons of Baní, Meshullám, Mallúch, and Adaiáh, Jashúb, and Sheál, Jeramóth.
30.And of the sons of ^Paháth Moáb, Adná, and Chelál, Benaiáh, Maaseiáh, Mattaniáh, Bezaleél, and Binnúi, and Manasséh.
31.And of the sons of Harím, Eliézer, Ishijáh, Malchiáh, Shemaiáh, Shimeón,
32.Benjamín, Mallúch, Shamatiah.
33.Of the sons of Hashúm, Mattenái, Mattattáh, Zabáh, Eliphélet, Jeremái, Menasséh, Shimeí,
34.Of the sons of Baní, Maadái, Amrám, and Uél,
35.Banaiáh, Bediáh, Chellúh,
36.Vaniáh, Meremóth, Eliashíb,
37.Mattaniáh, Mattenái, and Jaasáu,
38.And Banní and Bennúi, Shimeí,
39.And Shelemiáh, and Nathan, and Adaiáh,
40.Machnadebái, Shashái, Sharái,
41.Azareél, and Shelemiáh, Shemariáh,
42.Shallúm, Amariáh, Joseph.
43.Of the sons of Nebó, Jerél, Mattithiáh, Zabád, Zebiná, Jadaú, and Joél, Benaiáh.
44.All these had taken strange wives: and among them were women that had nchildren.

Notes

1-*.
1 Esdr. 8.92.
1-a.
He confessed his sins and the sins of the people.
2-b.
Meaning, that God would receive them to mercy.
3-c.
Which are strangers and married contrary to the law of God.
4-d.
Because God has given you authority, and learning to persuade the people herein and to command them.
6-*.
1 Esdr. 9.5.
7-^.
Ebr., sons of the captivity.
8-^.
Or, condemned.
9-e.
Which contained part of November and part of December.
9-f.
For the season was given to rain, and so the weather was more sharp and cold, and also their conscience touched them.
10-g.
You have laid one sin upon another.
11-h.
Read Josh. 7.19.
14-I.
Let them be appointed to examine this matter.
16-k.
They went to the chief cities to sit on this matter which was three months in finishing.
19-l.
As a token that they would keep promise and do it.
25-m.
Meaning, of the common people for before he spoke of the Priests and Levites.
30-^.
Or, the captain of Moab.
44-n.
Which also were made illegitimate because the marriage was unlawful.