Ezra 10:15-17
English Standard Version
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and (A)Meshullam and (B)Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
16 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men,[a] heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter; 17 and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
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- Ezra 10:16 Syriac; Hebrew And there were selected Ezra…
Ezra 10:15-17
New International Version
15 Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai(A) the Levite, opposed this.
16 So the exiles did as was proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, one from each family division, and all of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to investigate the cases, 17 and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.
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