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will be
with thee: be of good courage, and do
it.
5
Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the
Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
6
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the
son of Eliashib: and
when
he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned
because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
7
And they made proclamation
throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather
themselves together unto Jerusalem;
8
And that whosoever would not come within three days,
according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and
himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within
three days. It
was
the ninth month, on the twentieth
day
of the month; and all the people sat in the
street of the house of God, trembling because of
this
matter, and for the great rain.
10
And Ezra the
priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase
the trespass of Israel.
11
Now therefore make confession unto the L
ORD
God of your fathers, and
do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
12
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
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.
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 elders of every city, and the judges thereof,
until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
15
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this
matter:
and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
16
And the children of the captivity
did so. And Ezra the priest,
with
certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all
of them by
their
names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine
the matter.
17
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day
of the first month.
18
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives:
namely,
of
the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and
Gedaliah.
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.
20
And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
21
And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
22
And
of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
23
Also of the
Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same
is
Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
24
Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
25
Moreover of
Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and
Malchijah, and Benaiah.
26
And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi,
and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
27
And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth,
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