Ezra 10:18-44

The Voice

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.