Ezra 10:14-16

New English Translation

¹⁴ Let our leaders take steps^[a] on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

¹⁵ Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah were^[b] against this, assisted by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite. ¹⁶ So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out^[c] by name men who were leaders in their family groups.^[d] They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,