Ezra 10:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Only Jonathan, Asahel’s son, and Jahzeiah, Tikvah’s son, opposed this; Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levites supported them.

Resolving the issue

¹⁶ Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest chose^[a] certain men, heads of families, each representing their family houses. Each of them was designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month^[b] they sat down to examine the matter. ¹⁷ By the first day of the first month,^[c] they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.