1While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping…
2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said…
3So now let us make a covenant before…
4Get up, for this matter is your responsibility,…
5So Ezra got up and made the leading…
6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of…
7And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and…
8Whoever failed to appear within three days would…
9So within the three days, all the men…
10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said…
11Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD,…
12And the whole assembly responded in a loud…
13But there are many people here, and it…
14Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then…
15(Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son…
16So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the…
17and by the first day of the first…
18Among the descendants of the priests who had…
19They pledged to send their wives away, and…
20From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
21From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah,…
22From the descendants of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael,…
23Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is,…
24From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum,…
25And among the other Israelites, from the descendants…
26From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel,…
27From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah,…
28From the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai,…
29From the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah,…
30From the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah,…
31From the descendants of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah,…
32Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
33From the descendants of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad,…
34From the descendants of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,
35Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
36Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
37Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu.
38From the descendants of Binnui: Shimei,
39Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
40Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
41Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,
42Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
43And from the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah,…
44All these men had married foreign women, and…
