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14 Let now our princes [a]be appointed for all the assembly, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, [b]until this matter be despatched. 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah [c]stood up against 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 heads of fathers’ houses, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:14 Hebrew stand.
  2. Ezra 10:14 Or, as touching this matter
  3. Ezra 10:15 Or, were appointed over this