Ezra 10:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴ Why can't our officials stay on in Jerusalem and take care of this for us? Let everyone who has sinned in this way meet here at a certain time with leaders and judges from their own towns. If we take care of this problem, God will surely stop being so terribly angry with us.

¹⁵ Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah were the only ones who objected, except for the two Levites, Meshullam and Shabbethai.

¹⁶ Everyone else who had returned from exile agreed with the plan. So Ezra the priest chose men^[a] who were heads of the families, and he listed their names. They started looking into the matter on the first day of the tenth month,^[b]