16 Then the descendants of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain (A)heads of the fathers’ households, were set apart by the fathers’ households, each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 17 By the first day of the first month they finished questioning all the men who had taken pagan wives.

Pagan Wives Put Away

18 And among the sons of the priests who had taken pagan wives the following were found of the sons of (B)Jeshua the son of [a]Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:18 Jehozadak, 1 Chr. 6:14

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