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16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out[a] by name men who were leaders in their family groups.[b] They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month, 17 and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.

Those Who Had Taken Foreign Wives

18 It was determined[c] that from the descendants of the priests, the following had taken foreign wives: from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:16 tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadelu, “were separated”) of the MT.
  2. Ezra 10:16 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”
  3. Ezra 10:18 tn Heb “found.”