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16 The returned exiles[a] did so. Ezra the priest selected men, the heads of the families[b] according to the house of their fathers, all of them by name. They sat down to examine the matter on the first day of the tenth month. 17 They finished investigating all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

18 There was found from the sons of the priests those who had married foreign women, from the sons of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:16 Literally “the sons of the exile”
  2. Ezra 10:16 Literally “fathers”