Ezra 10:16-19

Contemporary English Version

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] 17} and they did not finish until the first day of the first month^[c] of the next year.

The Men Who Had Foreign Wives

^18-19 Here is a list of the priests who had agreed to divorce their foreign wives and to sacrifice a ram as a sin offering:

Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah from the family of Joshua son of Jozadak and his brothers;