1Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping…
2And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of…
3Now therefore let us make a covenant with…
4Arise; for the matter belongeth unto thee, and…
5Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of…
6Then Ezra rose up from before the house…
7And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem…
8and that whosoever came not within three days,…
9Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin…
10And Ezra the priest stood up, and said…
11Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God…
12Then all the assembly answered and said with…
13But the people are many, and it is…
14Let now our princes be appointed for all…
15Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah…
16And the children of the captivity did so.…
17And they made an end with all the…
18And among the sons of the priests there…
19And they gave their hand that they would…
20And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and…
21And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and…
22And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah,…
23And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and…
24And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the…
25And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh:…
26And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah,…
27And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib,…
28And of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah,…
29And of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch,…
30And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and…
31And [of] the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah,…
32Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
33Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad,…
34Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and…
35Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
36Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
37Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
38and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
39and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
40Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
41Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
42Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
43Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad,…
44All these had taken foreign wives; and some…
