以斯拉记 10
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
认罪祷告的结果
10 以斯拉祷告、认罪、哭泣，俯伏在 神的殿前的时候，有一大群以色列人，包括男女小孩，在他面前聚集；众人也都痛哭。 2 属以拦的子孙、耶歇的儿子示迦尼对以斯拉说：“我们对 神不忠，娶了这地这外族女子为妻。虽然这样，以色列现在还有希望。 3 现在，我们应当与我们的 神立约，按着我主和那些因我们 神的诫命而战兢的人所议定的，照着律法而行，送走这些妻子和她们所生的儿女。 4 你起来！因为这事全在你身上，我们支持你，你当坚强地去作。”
5 于是以斯拉起来，使祭司首领、利未人和以色列众人起誓要照着这话去行；他们就起誓。 6 以斯拉就从 神的殿前起来，走进以利亚实的儿子约哈难的屋里去；他在那里不吃饭，也不喝水，因为他为了被掳归回的人的不忠而悲伤。 7 于是，领袖们就在犹大和耶路撒冷向所有被掳归回的人发出通告，叫他们到耶路撒冷聚集。 8 所有不照着众领袖和众长老所议定，在三日之内来到的人，所有的财物都要充公，也要从被掳归回之人的会中被逐出。
9 于是犹大和便雅悯众人，三日之内都在耶路撒冷聚集，那时是九月二十日，众人坐在神殿的广场上；因为这事，又因为天下大雨的缘故，大家就都战栗发抖。 10 以斯拉祭司站起来，对他们说：“你们对 神不忠，娶了外族的女子为妻，增添了以色列的罪过。 11 现在你们要向耶和华你们列祖的 神认罪，遵行他所喜悦的旨意，与这地的民族和外族的女子分离。” 12 全体会众都大声回答说：“你怎么说，我们就怎么行。 13 可是人太多，又逢下大雨的季节，我们不能停留在外面；这又不是一两天可以完成的事，因为我们很多人在这事上犯了罪！ 14 让我们的领袖代表全体会众站在耶和华面前，所有在我们的城中娶了外族女子为妻的人，也都要在指定的日期，与本城的长老和审判官一起来，解决了这事，好使 神因这事所发的烈怒离开我们。” 15 只有亚撒黑的儿子约拿单和特瓦的儿子雅哈谢起来反对这提议，还有米书兰和利未人沙比太支持他们。
16 于是，被掳归回的人就这样行。以斯拉祭司提名选派了一些人，是各宗族的族长，于十月初一他们一同坐下来查办这事。 17 直到正月初一，他们才完成审查所有娶了外族的女子为妻的人。
娶异族女子为妻者的名单
18 在祭司子孙中，娶了外族的女子为妻的有耶书亚的子孙，约萨达的儿子和他的兄弟玛西雅、以利以谢、雅立、基大利。 19 他们举手起誓要送走他们的妻子，并献赎罪祭。他们就献上一只公绵羊，作他们的赎罪祭。 20 音麦的子孙中，有哈拿尼和西巴第雅。 21 哈琳的子孙中，有玛西雅、以利雅、示玛雅、耶歇和乌西雅。 22 巴施户珥的子孙中，有以利约乃、玛西雅、以实玛利、拿坦业、约撒拔和以利亚撒。
23 利未人中有约撒拔、示每、基拉雅（又叫基利他），还有毘他希雅、犹大和以利以谢。
24 歌唱者中，有以利亚实。守门的人中，有沙龙、提联和乌利。
25 属以色列人的巴录的子孙中，有拉米、耶西雅、玛基雅、米雅民、以利亚撒、玛基雅、比拿雅。 26 以拦的子孙中，有玛他尼、撒迦利亚、耶歇、押底、耶利末和以利雅。 27 萨土的子孙中，有以利约乃、以利亚实、玛他尼、耶利末、撒拔和亚西撒。 28 比拜的子孙中，有约哈难、哈拿尼雅、萨拜和亚勒。 29 巴尼的子孙中，有米书兰、玛鹿、亚大雅、雅述、示押和耶利末。 30 巴哈．摩押的子孙中，有阿底拿、基拉、比拿雅、玛西雅、玛他尼、比撒列、宾内和玛拿西。 31 哈琳的子孙中，有以利以谢、伊示雅、玛基雅、示玛雅、西缅、 32 便雅悯、玛鹿和示玛利雅。 33 哈顺的子孙中，有玛特乃、玛达他、撒拔、以利法列、耶利买、玛拿西和示每。 34 巴尼的子孙中，有玛代、暗兰、乌益、 35 比拿雅、比底雅、基禄、 36 瓦尼雅、米利末、以利亚实、 37 玛他尼、玛特乃、雅扫、 38 巴尼、宾内、示每、 39 示利米雅、拿单、亚大雅、 40 玛拿底拜、沙赛、沙赖、 41 亚萨利、示利米雅、示玛利雅、 42 沙龙、亚玛利雅、约瑟。 43 尼波的子孙中，有耶利、玛他提雅、撒拔、西比拿、雅玳、约珥和比拿雅。 44 这些人都娶了外族的女子为妻，但他们都把妻子和儿女送走了（本节经文残缺，意义难确定，或译：“有的妻子也生了儿女”）。
Ezra 10
The Voice
10 As Ezra was praying his confession and weeping and bowing on the steps of the True God’s temple, a huge group of Israelite men, women, and children joined him in weeping. 2 Shecaniah (son of Jehiel the Elamite) then spoke up.
Shecaniah and his family had returned to Jerusalem at the first opportunity 60 years earlier.
Shecaniah: You are right. We have forgotten our True God and have married foreign women from pagan nations. But there is hope for Israel yet. 3 We shall make a new covenant with our True God, promising to banish our foreign wives and their children. You and the others who follow the laws of our True God must guide us in this, so that we obey the law. 4 So stand up! Helping us follow the law is now your responsibility. Do not be afraid; we will support your actions.
5 So Ezra stood up and persuaded the leading priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear an oath to banish their foreign wives and foreign children. When everyone had taken the oath, 6 he entered the temple chamber of Jehohanan (son of Eliashib) and continued mourning the exiles’ unfaithfulness by fasting from food and water.
7 Those who had sworn the oath sent letters declaring it throughout Judah and Jerusalem telling all the returned exiles to assemble in Jerusalem 8 within three days. The counsel of chiefs and elders agreed that anyone who was not here would forfeit all his possessions and his status within the assembly. 9 Not surprisingly, all the men from Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem within three days, in spite of the winter rains. On the twentieth day of the ninth month, everyone sat in the courtyard in front of the True God’s temple—shivering under the weighty matter and the heavy rain.
Ezra: 10 There is no doubt that you have abandoned His ways and have married foreign women, adding to the list of Israel’s sins. 11 Now you must confess these sins to the Eternal God of your ancestors and do as He pleases: break away from the pagan nations and your foreign wives.
Assembly (loudly): 12 You are right. We must do what you’ve told us to do. 13 But look around. There are too many people here to house in this city, and the rains will not allow us to stay outside for very long. Also our sins are too horrible to be adequately dealt with in a day or two. 14 Allow our chiefs to represent everyone in this assembly right now. Then each person in every city who has married a foreign woman can come back with his civic leaders at a scheduled time. We can then continue the inquiries until our True God withdraws His wrath from us about these sins.
Ezra is able to fulfill all of Artaxerxes’ requirements and ensure his support. He leads the inquiry into the Jews’ practice of God’s laws, and he selects tribal leaders as judges over their people. This story of the legal system may seem unimportant when compared to the sweeping cultic reforms of Josiah and Hezekiah, but it is a microcosm of Ezra’s work throughout Jerusalem and Judah. Throughout his reforms, Ezra focuses on God and takes deliberate steps to improve the nation’s relationship with Him.
15-16 With the exception of four men, Jonathan (son of Asahel), Jahzeiah (son of Tikvah), Meshullam, and Shabbethai (the Levite), everyone supported this plan. Ezra selected one leader from each tribe to represent his people and recorded their names. These tribal leaders then gathered on the first day of the tenth month to begin the inquiries. 17 By the first day of the first month, the investigations of all men who had married foreign women was finished, and the offenders were recorded.
18 These priests, from the family of the high priest, married foreign women: the descendants of Jeshua (son of Jozadak) and his brothers Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. 19 They were found guilty, promised to expel their wives, and offered a ram of the flock as penance.
20 From the other priestly families: Hanani and Zebadiah (descendants of Immer); 21 Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah (descendants of Harim); 22 Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah (descendants of Pashhur).
23 From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
24 From the singers: Eliashib.
From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
25 From the laymen of Israel: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah,[a] and Benaiah (descendants of Parosh); 26 Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah (descendants of Elam); 27 Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza (descendants of Zattu); 28 Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai (descendants of Bebai); 29 Meshullam, Malluch and Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth (descendants of Bani); 30 Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh (descendants of Pahath-moab); 31-32 Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah (descendants of Harim); 33 Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei (descendants of Hashum); 34-42 Maadai, Amram, Uel, Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu (descendents of Bani); Shimei, Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph (descendants of Binnui); 43 Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah (descendants of Nebo).
44 All these men had married foreign women, and some had fathered children by them.
Footnotes
- 10:25 Hebrew text reads, “Malchijah.”
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