The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

Ezra 10:3 (NRSV)

So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

 

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Ezra 10:4 (BSB)
Get up, for this matter is your responsibility, and we will support you. Be strong and take action!”

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:5 (NRSV)

Then Ezra stood up and made the leading priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear that they would do as had been said. So they swore.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:6 (NRSV)

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. He did not eat bread or drink water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

 

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Ezra 10:7 (KJV)
And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:8 (NKJV)

and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the instructions of the leaders and elders, all his property would be confiscated, and he himself would be separated from the assembly of those from the captivity.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:9 (NKJV)

So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open square of the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of heavy rain.

 

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Ezra 10:10 (ERV)
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married strange women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:11 (NKJV)

Now therefore, make confession to the Lord God of your fathers, and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives.”

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:12 (NKJV)

Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, “Yes! As you have said, so we must do.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezra 10:13 (BSB)
But there are many people here, and it is the rainy season. We are not able to stay out in the open. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.

 

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Ezra 10:14 (KJV)
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.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:15 (NRSV)

Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levites supported them.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:16 (NRSV)

Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of families, according to their families, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter.

 

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Ezra 10:17 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:18 (NRSV)

There were found of the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women, of the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:19 (NRSV)

They pledged themselves to send away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

 

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Ezra 10:20 (ERV)
And of the sons of Immer; Hanani and Zebadiah.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:21 (KJ21)

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

 

[Deade]

Ezra 10:22 (KJ21)

and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah;