以斯拉记 10
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
终止杂婚
10 以斯拉祷告、认罪、哭泣、俯伏在上帝的殿前时，一大群以色列人，包括男女和孩子，都聚集到他那里，与他一起痛哭。 2 以拦宗族耶歇的儿子示迦尼对以斯拉说：“我们对我们的上帝不忠，娶这地方的外族女子为妻，但以色列还有希望。 3 现在，我们来与我们的上帝立约，听从你和那些敬畏我们上帝诫命之人的指示，遵照律法而行，送走这些妻子和她们的儿女。 4 起来吧！这事由你处理，我们支持你，放胆去做吧！”
5 于是，以斯拉起来，要祭司长、利未人和所有以色列人起誓照这话去做，他们就都起了誓。 6 以斯拉从上帝的殿前起来，进了以利亚实的儿子约哈难的房间。他在那里不吃不喝，为流亡归来者的不忠而忧伤。
7 他们在犹大和耶路撒冷发出通告，要求所有流亡归来的人在耶路撒冷集合。 8 按照众首领和长老的决定，三天之内未到者，其财产会被没收，他本人也要被逐出流亡归来者的会。
9 三天内，所有的犹大人和便雅悯人都聚集在耶路撒冷。九月二十日，大家都坐在上帝的殿前面的广场上。因为这事，加上当时下大雨，众人都战战兢兢。
10 以斯拉祭司站起来对他们说：“你们对上帝不忠，娶外族的女子为妻，加重了以色列的罪恶。 11 现在，你们要向你们祖先的上帝耶和华认罪，遵行祂的旨意，与这地方的人和你们的外族妻子断绝关系。”
12 会众都高声回答说：“你说的对，我们必照你的话做。 13 可是，人这么多，又逢大雨季节，我们不能总站在外面，并且这事一两天也解决不了，因为我们在这事上犯了大罪。 14 不如让我们的首领为全体会众处理这事，让那些娶了外族女子为妻的人在指定的时间与本城的长老和审判官一起来找首领解决，直到我们的上帝因这事而发的烈怒离开我们。”
15 只有撒黑的儿子约拿单和特瓦的儿子雅哈谢反对这事，支持他们的还有米书兰和利未人沙比太。
16 流亡归来的人都遵照建议而行。以斯拉祭司按家族选出各族长，都是点名指定的。他们从十月一日开始着手查办这事， 17 到次年一月一日才查清娶外族女子为妻的人。
18 祭司中娶外族女子为妻的有耶书亚的子孙约萨达的儿子及其弟兄玛西雅、以利以谢、雅立和基大利。 19 他们答应休掉自己的妻子，并从羊群中献上一只公绵羊为自己赎罪。 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——又名基利他、毗他希雅、犹大和以利以谢。 24 歌乐手中有以利亚实。殿门守卫中有沙龙、提联、乌利。
25 其他以色列人中有巴录的子孙拉米、耶西雅、玛基雅、米雅民、以利亚撒、玛基雅和比拿雅。 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、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 巴尼的子孙中有玛玳、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、玛特乃和雅扫。 38 宾内的子孙中有示每、 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、亚玛利雅和约瑟。 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 以上这些人都娶了外族女子为妻，其中有些还生了子女。
Ezra 10
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
10 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there gathered to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men, women, and children; for the people wept bitterly.
2 And Shecaniah [II] son of Jehiel [one of the congregation], of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra: We have broken faith and dealt treacherously against our God and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land; yet now there is still hope for Israel in spite of this thing.
3 Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God; and let it be done according to the Law.
4 Arise, for it is your duty, and we are with you. Be strong and brave and do it.
5 Then Ezra arose and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.
6 Then Ezra came from before the house of God and went into the lodging place of Jehohanan son of Eliashib [for the night]. There he ate no bread and drank no water, for he mourned over the returned exiles’ faithlessness [and violation of God’s law].
7 And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles, that they should assemble in Jerusalem,
8 And that whoever did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders, all his property should be forfeited and he himself banned from the assembly of the exiles.
9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the twentieth day of the ninth month, and all the people sat in the open space before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.
10 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, You have acted wickedly and broken faith [with God] and have married foreign (heathen) women, increasing the guilt of Israel.
11 So now make confession and give thanks to the Lord, the God of your fathers [for not consuming you], and do His will. [a]Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from [your] foreign (heathen) wives.
12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said, so must we do.
13 But the people are many and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand outside. Nor can this work be done in a day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
14 Let our officials stand for the whole assembly; let all in our cities who have foreign wives come by appointment, and with each group the elders of that city and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.
15 Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
16 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest and certain heads of fathers’ houses were selected, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.
17 And by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of the cases of the men married to foreign wives.
18 Of the sons of the priests who had married non-Jewish women were found: of the sons of Jeshua [the high priest] son of Jozadak, and his brethren: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
19 They solemnly vowed to put away their [heathen] wives, and, being guilty, [each] offered a ram of the flock for [his] guilt.
20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
22 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
23 Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
24 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
25 And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah (Hashabiah), and Benaiah.
26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.
27 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.
28 Of the sons also of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
29 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.
30 Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
31 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,
35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi (Cheluhu),
36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu [Jaasai],
38 Bani, Binnui, Shimei,
39 Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
41 Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,
42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo (Jaddai), Joel, and Benaiah.
44 All these had married foreign women, and some of the wives had borne children.
Footnotes
- Ezra 10:11 The apparently great severity which characterized Ezra’s divorce policy, as shown in chapters 9 and 10, becomes thoroughly justified when Israel’s tragic experiences because of marriages with heathen women are considered. The consequent idolatry, first of King Solomon, for example, and then of the whole nation, was fatal. God’s wrath had been so great that He not only took the kingship from Solomon, but eventually turned the Israelites over to their enemies and left the promised land desolate, while the people bewailed their fate as captives in a heathen country. Ezra, to whom the keeping of God’s law was of constant concern, had been born in captivity among exiles who hung their harps on the willow trees and grieved for the country, for the peace and prosperity which their now justly offended God had once given them. Nothing could have been more abhorrent to Ezra than that the Jews should again fall into the snare of idolatry. His action in leading the exiles to give up their foreign wives and their children was the only way out if God’s consuming wrath was not again to be incurred. That those still living of the 42,360 men who over eighty years before had made up the congregation (Ezra 2:64) also saw complete separation from the foreign women as the unavoidable solution is obvious from the fact that only four (Ezra 10:15) spoke against it. However, those who were now actually married to native heathen women were only 17 priests, 10 Levites, and 86 laymen—113 in all, according to the records, though the list may be incomplete.
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