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|Esdras 10:11|
Now make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples around you and from your foreign wives.”
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|Esdras 10:12|
The whole assembly responded with a loud voice: “You are right! We must do as you say.
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|Esdras 10:13|
But there are many people here and it is the rainy season; so we cannot stand outside. Besides, this matter cannot be taken care of in a day or two, because we have sinned greatly in this thing.
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|Esdras 10:14|
Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”
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|Esdras 10:15|
Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this.
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|Esdras 10:16|
So the exiles did as was proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, one from each family division, and all of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to investigate the cases,
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|Esdras 10:17|
and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.
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|Esdras 10:18|
Among the descendants of the priests, the following had married foreign women: From the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.
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|Esdras 10:19|
(They all gave their hands in pledge to put away their wives, and for their guilt they each presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.)
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|Esdras 10:20|
From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
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