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Ezra 10 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:1 - Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together unto him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 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 that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:4 - Arise; for the matter belongeth unto thee, and we are with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:5 - 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 sware.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - 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 thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:7 - And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8 - and that whosoever came not 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:9 - Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:12 - Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said concerning us, so must we do.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:13 - But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without: neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be despatched.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:15 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:16 - And the children of the captivity did so. And 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

List of Offenders

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18 - And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:19 - And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:20 - And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:21 - And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:22 - And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:23 - And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24 - And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:25 - And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:26 - And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:27 - And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:28 - And of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:29 - And of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:30 - And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:31 - And of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:32 - Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:33 - Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:34 - Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:35 - Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:36 - Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:37 - Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:38 - and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:39 - and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:40 - Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:41 - Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:42 - Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:43 - Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:44 - All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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