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The People Carry Out Their Promise

16 So those who had returned from exile did this. Ezra the priest and leaders of certain ancestral groups listed by name devoted themselves to examine the situation on the first day of the tenth month. 17 By the first day of the first month they concluded their investigation of all of the men who had married foreign wives.

Those who Married Foreign Women

18 Here is a list of priestly descendants who were found to have married foreign women. From Jeshua’s descendants:[a] Jozadak’s son and his brothers Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:18 Lit. Children of; and so through v. 43