Ezra 10:15-17

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¹⁵ Only a few men were against this plan. They were Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah. Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite also were against the plan.

¹⁶ So the Israelites who came back to Jerusalem accepted the plan. Ezra the priest chose men who were family leaders. He chose one man from each tribe. Each man was chosen by name. On the first day of the tenth month,^[a] the men who were chosen sat down to study each of the cases. ¹⁷ And by the first day of the first month,^[b] they finished discussing all the men who had married foreign women.