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¹ Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, "It is our responsibility to do just as you have said.

² But there are many people and it is the season of heavy rain; so we are unable to stand outside. Nor can the task be done in a day or two, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.

³ Let our leaders stand for and represent the entire assembly; let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the burning anger of our God over this matter is turned away from us."

⁴ Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah[2] opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.

⁵ Then the [former] exiles did so. Ezra the priest and men who were heads of fathers' households were selected, according to their fathers' households, each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.

⁶ And by the first day of the first month they finished investigating all the men married to foreign wives.

⁷ Now among the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found: of the sons of Jeshua [the high priest] the son of Jozadak, and his brothers—Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

⁸ They vowed to send away their [pagan] wives, and being guilty, they each offered a ram of the flock for their offense.

⁹ Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah;

¹⁰ and of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah;

¹¹ and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

¹² Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah, that is, Kelita, Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

¹³ Of the singers: Eliashib; and of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

¹⁴ Of Israel, of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah (Hashabiah), and Benaiah;

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1	Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, "It is our responsibility to do just as you have said.
2	But there are many people and it is the season of heavy rain; so we are unable to stand outside. Nor can the task be done in a day or two, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.
3	Let our leaders stand for and represent the entire assembly; let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the burning anger of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
4	Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah[2] opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
5	Then the [former] exiles did so. Ezra the priest and men who were heads of fathers' households were selected, according to their fathers' households, each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.
6	And by the first day of the first month they finished investigating all the men married to foreign wives.
7	Now among the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found: of the sons of Jeshua [the high priest] the son of Jozadak, and his brothers—Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
8	They vowed to send away their [pagan] wives, and being guilty, they each offered a ram of the flock for their offense.
9	Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah;
10	and of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah;
11	and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
12	Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah, that is, Kelita, Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
13	Of the singers: Eliashib; and of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
14	Of Israel, of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah (Hashabiah), and Benaiah;

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