10:1 Now when Ezra (עזרא) had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the Beit Elohim (אלהים), there assembled to him out of Yisrael a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
10:2 And Shechanyah Ben Yehiel, [one] of benai Elam, answered and said to Ezra (עזרא), We have trespassed against Eloheinu, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Yisrael concerning this thing.
10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with Eloheinu to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my master, and of those that tremble at the mitzvot Eloheinu; and let it be done according to the Torah.
10:4 Arise: for [this] matter [belongeth] to thee: we also [will be] with thee:
Be of good courage, and do [it].
10:5 Then arose Ezra (עזרא), and made the leading Kohanim, ha Levi'im, and all Yisrael, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
10:6 Then Ezra (עזרא) rose up from before the Beit Elohim (אלהים), and went into the chamber of Yochanan Ben Eliashiv: and [when] he came thither, he did eat no lechem, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
10:7 And they made proclamation throughout Yehudah and Yerushalayim to all Benai the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Yerushalayim;
10:8 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the zekenim, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
10:9 Then all the men of Yehudah and Benyamin gathered themselves together to Yerushalayim within three days. It [was] the ninth month (Kislev), on the twentieth [day] of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the Beit Elohim (אלהים), trembling because of [this] matter, and for the great rain.
10:10 And Ezra (עזרא) ha kohen stood up, and said to them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Yisrael.
10:11 Now therefore make confession to ADONAI (יהוה) Elohim (אלהים) of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
10:12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As you hast said, so must we do.
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 are many that have transgressed in this thing.
10:14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the ziknei (elders) of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of Eloheinu for this matter be turned from us.
10:15 Only Yonatan Ben Asahel and Yahazyah Ben Tikvah were employed about this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai ha Levy helped them.
10:16 And Benai the captivity did so. And Ezra (עזרא) ha kohen, [with] certain Rashei ha Avot, after the beit their fathers, and all of them by [their] names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month (Tevet) to examine the matter.
10:17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month (Aviv).
10:18 And among benai ha kohanim there were found that had taken strange wives: [namely], of benai Yeshua Ben Yotzadak, and his brethren; Maaseyah, and Eli'ezer, and Yariv, and Gedalyah.
10:19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and [being] guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their trespass.
10:20 And of benai Immer;
Hanani, and Zevadyah.
10:21 And of benai Harim:
MaaseYah, and Eliyah, and Shemayah, and Yehi'el, and Uzzyah.
10:22 And of benai Pashur:
Elioenai, Maaseyah, Yishma'el, Nethaneel, Yozavad, and Elasah.
10:23 Also of ha Levi'im:
Yozabad, and Shimei, and Kelayah, (the same [is] Kelita,) Pethahyah, Yehudah, and Eliezer.
10:24 Of the singers
also Eliashiv: and
of the gatekeepers;
Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
10:25 Moreover of Yisrael:
of benai Parosh; Ramyah, and Yezyah, and Malkhyah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and MalkhiYah, and BenaYah.
10:26 And of benai Elam:
Mattanyah, Zekaryah, and Yehiel, and Abdi, and Yeremot, and Elyah.
10:27 And of benai Zattu:
Elioenai, Eliashiv, Mattanyah, and Yeremot, and Zabad, and Aziza.
10:28 Of the banim also of Bevai:
Yehohanan, Hananyah, Zavbai, [and] Athlai.
10:29 And of benai Bani:
Meshullam, Mallukh, and Adayah, Yashuv, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
10:30 And of benai Pachat-Mo'av:
Adna, and Chelal, Benayah, Maaseyah, Mattanyah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
10:31 And [of] benai Harim;
Eli'ezer, Ishiyah, Malkhyah, Shemayah, Shimeon,
10:32 Benyamin, Mallukh, [and] ShemarYah.
10:33 Of benai Hashum:
Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Elifelet, Yeremai, Manasseh, [and] Shimei.
10:34 Of benai Bani:
Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
10:35 Benayah, Bedeyah, Chelluh,
10:36 Vanyah, Meremot, Eliashiv,
10:37 Mattanyah, Mattenai, and Yaasau,
10:38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
10:39 And Shelemyah, and Nathan, and Adayah,
10:40 Makhhnadevai, Shashai, Sharai,
10:41 Azareel, and Shelemyah, Shemaryah,
10:42 Shallum, Amaryah, [and] Yosef.
10:43 Of benai Nebo:
Ye'i'el, Mattityah, Zabad, Zebina, Yadau, and Yo'el, Benayah.
10:44 All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had wives by whom they had children.