14. Let our leaders represent the whole community. At a set time, everyone who has married a foreign woman must meet with the leaders and judges of each city until our God’s burning anger has turned away from us in this matter.”
15. (Only Jonathan, Asahel’s son, and Jahzeiah, Tikvah’s son, opposed this. Meshullam and Shabbethai, the Levite, supported Jonathan and Jahzeiah.)
16. The former exiles did this. Ezra the priest chose men who were heads of families. He chose one from each family division. (They were all ⌊listed⌋ by name.) They sat down on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.
17. By the first day of the first month, they had finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.
18. Among the descendants of the priests, the following were married to foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, a descendant of Jeshua (who was Jozadak’s son) and his brothers.
19. They shook hands as a pledge that they would get rid of their wives. They sacrificed a ram from their flock as an offering for guilt because they were guilty.
20. From the descendants of Immer:Hanani and Zebadiah
21. From the descendants of Harim:Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah
22. From the descendants of Pashhur:Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah
23. From the Levites:Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer
24. From the singers:EliashibFrom the gatekeepers:Shallum, Telem, and Uri
25. From the other Israelites:From the descendants of Parosh:Ramiah, Izziah, Malchiah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchiah, and Benaiah
26. From the descendants of Elam:Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah
27. From the descendants of Zattu:Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza
28. From the descendants of Bebai:Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai
29. From the descendants of Bani:Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth
30. From the descendants of Pahath Moab:Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh