The Complete Holy Bible - NIVUK Audio Bible - 15 Ezra

the book of esdras esdras chapter one in the first year of cyrus king of persia so that the word of the lord spoken by jeremiah would be fulfilled the lord moved the heart of cyrus king of persia to make a proclamation throughout his kingdom and also to put it to the public. write this is what cyrus king of persia says the lord the god of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has commissioned me to build him a temple in jerusalem in judah any of his people among you can go up to jerusalem in judah and build the temple of the Lord the god of Israel the god who is in Jerusalem and may their god be with them and in any locality where survivors now live the people must provide them with silver and gold with goods and livestock and with freewill offerings for the temple of god in Jerusalem then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and Levites all those whose hearts God had moved prepared to go up and build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem all their neighbors helped them with the silver and gold objects with goods and cattle and with valuable gifts in addition to all the freewill offerings, in addition King Cyrus brought out the objects belonging to the temple of the lord that Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and placed in the temple.

From their god Cyrus king of Persia had them brought Mithridat the treasurer who counted them at chez bazaar the prince of Judah this was the inventory gold plates 30 silver plates 1,000 silver saucepans 29 gold bowls 30 matching silver bowls 410 other thousand articles in total there were five thousand four hundred objects of gold and silver that the Czech bazaar brought all of these together with the exiles when they went up from Babylon to Jerusalem Ezra chapter 2 now these are the inhabitants of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each one to his own people in the company of Zerubbabel Joshua Nehemiah Soraya Relia Mordecai the list of the men of the people of Israel the descendants of Perosh 2172 of the shepherd 372 of era 775 of pay health moab through the line of jeshua and joab and 2812 of elam one thousand two hundred and fifty-four of zatu nine hundred and forty-five of zac ai 760 of baini 642 of bbi 623 of asgard 1222 of adenycam 666 of big vi 2056 of aden 454 from ata to hezekiah 98 from bisei 323 from chorah 112 from haitim 223 from giba 95 the men of Bethlehem 123 from natofa 56 from anatot 128 from azmapeth 42 from kiriat hiarim kaphara and biroth 743 from rama and humba 621 from mikmash 12 2 from betel and a 223 of nebo 52 of magbish 156 of the other elam 1254 of harim 320 of lord hayden and ono 725 of jericho 344 of seneya 3630 the priests the descendants of jedi through the family of jeshua 907 of imma 1052 of pashur 1247 of heyrim 1017 the Levites the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel from the line of Hadavaya 74 the musicians the descendants of Asaph 128 the gatekeepers of the temple the descendants of Shalom Ayta Talmun Akub Hataita and Shubaya 139 the servants of the temple the descendants of Zaihar Hasufa Tabayoth Kiros Sayaha Payan labana Hagaba Akub Hagab Shalmai Hainan Gidel Geha Raya Reason Nakoda The descendants of the servants of Solomon The descendants of Sotheai Hasofireth The servants of the temple and the descendants of the servants of Solomon 392 The following came up from the cities of Talmila Telhasha Kirab Adam and Imma But They could not prove that their families descended from Israel the descendants of Delaia Tobia and Nakoda 652 and among the priests the descendants of Hobaya Hakkos and Basilei a man who had married a daughter of Basilai the Gileadite and was called by that name these They searched their family records but they could not find them and that is why they were excluded from the priesthood for being unclean.

The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred foods until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim. The whole company was forty-two. one thousand three hundred and sixty in addition to their seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven male and female slaves and they also had 200 male and female singers they had 736 horses 245 mules 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys when they arrived at the house of the Lord in Jerusalem Some of the heads of families gave offerings volunteers for the rebuilding of the house of God on its site, according to that capacity they gave to the treasury for this work sixty-one thousand darix of gold, five thousand minas of silver and one hundred priestly vestments.

The priests, the Levites, the musicians, the doorkeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns along with some of the rest of the people and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns Ezra chapter 3 when the seventh month arrived and the Israelites had settled established in their towns the people gathered as one in Jerusalem then Joshua son of Joseph and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shiatiel and his associates began to build the order of the god of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings in it according to what is written In the law of Moses, the man of God, despite his fear of the people around them, built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening sacrifices, then According to what is written, they celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day after they presented the regular burnt offerings, the new moon sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the sacred festivals appointed by the Lord thus as those brought as freewill offerings to the lord on the first day of the seventh month began to offer burnt offerings to the lord, although the foundation of the temple of the lord had not yet been laid, then they gave money to the masons and carpenters and gave food, drink and oil of olive to the people of Saigon and Tyre, so they would bring cedar logs by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia, in the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shiatiel Joshua son of Joseph and the rest of the people, the priests and the Levites and all those who would return from captivity to Jerusalem began the work.

They appointed Levites from 20 years old and up to supervise the construction of the house of the Lord Joshua. and his sons and brothers and kadiel and his sons descendants of hodovir and the sons of henaid and his sons and brothers, all the Levites joined together to supervise those who worked in the house of god when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the lord The priests with their vestments and with trumpets and the Levites the sons of Asaph with symbols took their places to praise the Lord as prescribed by David king of Israel with praise and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord he is good his love for Israel endures forever and all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, but many of the older priests, Levites, and householders who had seen the former temple wept aloud when they saw As the foundation of this temple was being laid, while many others shouted for joy, no one could distinguish the sound. of the shouts of joy of the sound of crying because the people made so much noise and the sound was heard in the distance Ezra chapter 4 when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the Lord the god of Israel He approached Zerubbabel and the heads of families and said to them: "Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your god and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Essa Hutton, king of Assyria, who brought us here, but Zerubbabel Joshua and The rest of the heads of the families of Israel responded that you have no part with us in building a temple for our god, we alone will build it for the Lord the god of Israel as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, ordered us, Then the people around them discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to continue building.

They bribed officials to work against them and thwart their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia, and until the reign of Darius, king of Persia, at the beginning of Xerxes' reign they presented an accusation against the people of Judah and Jerusalem and in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia bislam mithridath tabial and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Alta Aramaic and in Aramaic language the commander The officer and Shimshai the secretary wrote a letter against Jerusalem to add to King Xerxes the following: the secretary along with the rest of his associates the judges officials and administrators over the people of Persia, the Aurochs and Babylon , the Elamites of Souza and the other peoples whom the great and honorable Ashobanipal deported and settled in the city of Samaria and in other places in the Trans Euphrates.

This is a copy of the letter that was sent to King Artaxerxes on behalf of your servants. men of the trans euphrates the king must know that the people who came up to us from you have gone to jerusalem and are rebuilding that rebellious and evil city they are restoring the walls and repairing the foundations furthermore the king must know that if this city is built and If they restore its walls, no more taxes, tributes or duties will be paid and eventually the royal revenues will be affected now since we are obligated to the palace and it is not in our interest to see the king disgraced.

We send this message to inform the king so that a search can be made in the archives of his predecessors in these. records you will find that this city is a rebellious city problematic for kings and provinces a place with a long history of sedition that is why this city was destroyed we inform the king that if this city is built and its walls restored you will be left with nothing in a trance euphrates the king sent this reply to rihum the commanding officer shimshai the secretary and the rest of his associates who live in samaria and elsewhere trans euphrates greetings the letter you sent us has been read and translated in my presence i have issued an order and A search was made and it was found that this city has a long history of rebellion against kings and has been a place of rebellion and sedition.

Jerusalem has had powerful kings ruling over the entire Transeuphrates and taxes, tributes and duties were paid to them. now issue an order to these men to stop working so that this city will not be rebuilt until the iso order be careful not to neglect this matter why let this threat grow to the detriment of royal interests as soon as it is received the copy of the king's letter? artaxerxes was read before rihum and shimshai the secretary and his associates, immediately went to see the jews in jerusalem and forcibly forced them to stop, so that work in the house of god in jerusalem was paralyzed until the second year of the reign of darius king of persia

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chapter 5 now the prophet haggai and the prophet zechariah a descendant of gone prophesied to the jews in judah and jerusalem in the name of the god of israel who was over them then zerubbabel the son of shiatiel and joshua the son of josedech stood a worked to rebuild the house of god in jerusalem and the prophets of god were with them supporting them on the euphrates and sheathing our i boson and their associates went to them and asked them who authorized them to rebuild this temple and finish it they also asked what the names are of those who are building this building, but the eye of their god was watching over the elders of the Jews and they were not detained until a report could be sent to Darius and his written response received.

This is a copy of Governor Tatanai's letter. by chance euphrates and shethard bosni and their associates the officials of trans euphrates sent to king darius the report they sent him read the following to king darius cordial greetings the king should know that we went to the district of judah to the temple of the great god the people are building with large stones and placing the beams on the walls the work is carried out diligently and progresses rapidly under their direction we interrogate the elders and ask them who authorized them to rebuild this temple and finish it we also ask their names so that we can write down the names of their leaders for your information this is the answer they gave us we are the servants of the god of heaven and earth and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago one that a great king of Israel built and finished but due to that our ancestors angered the god of heaven he delivered them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean king of Babylon who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon however in the first year of Cyros king of King Cyrus of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

He even removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles of the house of God that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple in Babylon. Then King Cyrus gave them to a man named Shezbasa whom he appointed governor and told him to take these articles and go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem and rebuild the house of God on its side, so this chez bazaar came and laid the foundations of the house of God. In Jerusalem from that day to the present it has been under construction but is not yet finished.

If it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal archives of Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree to rebuild this house. of God in Jerusalem then let the king send us his decision in this matter Ezra chapter 6 King Darius then issued an order and they searched the archives stored in the treasury ofbabylon a scroll was found in the citadel of ekbatana in the province of media and this was written on it memorandum in the first year of king cyrus the king issued a decree regarding the temple of god in jerusalem that the temple be rebuilt as a place for to present sacrifices and to lay its foundations it must be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide with three rows of large stones and one of wood the costs will be paid by the royal treasury also the gold and silver objects of the house of god that Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem they must be deposited in the house of god now then tatanai governor of the trans Euphrates and sheath our boson i and you other officials of that province stay away from there no interfere with the work in this temple of god that the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of god on its site.

Furthermore, I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews in the construction of this house of God. god, his expenses are to be paid in full from the royal treasury, with the income from the other side of the Euphrates, so that the work does not stop, whatever is necessary, bulls, rams, lambs for burnt offerings to the god of heaven, wheat, salt, wine and olive oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem must be delivered daily without fail so that they can offer pleasing sacrifices to the god of heaven and pray for the well-being of the king and his children, I further decree that if anyone defies this edict a beam will be torn from their house and they will be impaled on it and for this crime their house will be turned into a pile of rubble that god who has made his name to dwell there will overthrow any king or people who raises a hand to change this decree or destroy this temple in jerusalem i darius have decreed that it be carried out diligently then because of the decree king darius had sent tatini governor of the transeuphrates and sheathed our boson i and his associates carried it out diligently so that The elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of the prophet Hakkai and Zechariah, a descendant of Edo, finished building the temple according to the command of the god of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

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d on the third day of the month Adar in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius then the people of Israel, the priests, the Levites and the rest of the exiles celebrated with joy the dedication of the house of God for the dedication of this house of God they offered one hundred bulls 200 rams 400 lambs and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel and installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God in Jerusalem according to what is written in the book of Moses on the 14th day of the first month the exiles celebrated the Passover the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean the Levites sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles for their relatives the priests and for themselves as well as Israelites who had returned from exile in it along with all those who had turned away from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors to seek the Lord the god of Israel for seven days celebrated with joy the Feast of Unleavened Bread because the Lord had filled with joy at changing the attitude of the king of Assyria so that he would help them in the work of the house of God the god of Israel Ezra chapter 7 after these things during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia Ezra son of Sariah the son of Azariah son of Hilkiah son of Shalom son of Zadok son of Haitab son of Amariah son of Azariah son of Maraoth son of Zerahire son of Azai son of Bukkai son of Abishhua son of Phineas son of Eleazar son of Aeron the high priest this Ezra He came up from Babylon he was a teacher versed in the law of Moses that the Lord the god of Israel had given him the king had granted him everything he asked for from the hand of the Lord his god was over him some of the Israelites including Levite priests musicians Gatekeepers and temple servants also went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the king's seventh year.

He had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month and arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth. month because the merciful hand of his god was upon him because Ezra had dedicated himself to the study and observance of the law of the lord. and to teach his decrees and laws in israel this is a copy of the letter that king artaxerxes had given to the priest esdras a teacher of the law a man learned in matters related to the commandments and decrees of the lord for israel artaxerxes king of kings to Ezra the priest teacher of the law of the god of heaven greetings I decree that any of the Israelites in my kingdom including priests and Levites who volunteer to go to Jerusalem with you may go you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to ask about judah and jerusalem regarding the law of your god that is in your hand you will also take with you the silver and gold that the king and his advisors have voluntarily given to the god of israel whose dwelling is in jerusalem along with all the silver and gold you can obtain from the province of Babylon as well as the freewill offerings of the people and the priests for the temple of their god in Jerusalem with this money be sure to buy bulls, rams and lambs along with their grain offerings and libations. and sacrifice them on the altar of the temple of your god in Jerusalem, you and your fellow Israelites may then do as you see fit with the rest of the silver and gold according to the will of your god, hand over to the god of Jerusalem all the articles. entrusted to you for worship in the temple of your god and anything else necessary for the temple of your god that you are responsible for providing, you may provide it from the royal treasury now, King Artaxerxes decrees that all treasurers across the Euphrates must diligently provide everything that Ezra the priest, teacher of the law of the god of heaven, asks of you, up to one hundred talents of silver, one hundred kernels of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of olive oil and unlimited salt, whatever be the god of heaven has prescribed that it be done with diligence for the temple of the god of heaven why his wrath must fall on the kingdom of the king and his sons you must also know that you have no authority to impose taxes, tributes or duties on any of the priests Levites musicians doorkeepers temple servants or other workers in this house of god and you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your god that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people on the other side of the Euphrates, all who They know the laws. of your god and you must teach anyone who does not know them.

Whoever does not obey the law of your god and the law of the king must surely be punished with death, banishment, confiscation of property or imprisonment. Praise the lord, our god. ancestors who have put it in the heart of the king to honor the house of the lord in Jerusalem in this way and who have extended their favor to me before the king and his counselors and all the king's powerful officials because the hand of the lord my god was upon I took courage and gathered leaders of Israel to go up with me Ezra chapter eight these are the heads of families and those registered with them who went up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes of the descendants of Phineas Gershom of the descendants of Ithama Daniel of the descendants of David Hatosh of the descendants of Shecanaya of the descendants of Perosh Zechariah and with him were recorded 150 men are the descendants of Pahat Moab Eli Iwinai son of Zaharaya and with him two hundred men of the descendants of Zatu Shakanya son of Jahaziel and with him three hundred men of the descendants of Aden Ebed the son of Jonathan and with him fifty men of the descendants of Elam Josiah the son of Watchtower and with him seventy men of the descendants of Zebedee the shepherd son of Michael and with him eighty men of the descendants of joab obdias son of jihao and with him 218 men of the descendants of banai shalom son of josefia and with him 160 men of the descendants of bibayai zechariah son of bbi and with him 28 men of the descendants of asgard johannan son of hakkatan and with him 110 men from the descendants of adonai kam the last whose names were alifallette jewell and shamaya and with them sixty men from the descendants of big ibai jutei and zaka and with them seventy men I gathered them at the canal that flows towards Haver and we camped there three days When I checked among the people and the priests I did not find any Levites there, so I called Eliza Ariel Shamaya the Nathan Jarib the Nathan Nathan Zechariah and Mushulam who were leaders and Joya Rib and the Nathan who were men of knowledge and I ordered them to go. the leader in cassifier i told them what to say to ido and his fellow levites the temple servants at casa fire said they could bring us assistance for the house of our god because the kind hand of our god was upon us they brought us sheree bayer a capable man of the descendants of Malai the son of Levi the son of Israel and the sons and brothers of Sharabaya 18 in total and together with Jeshiah of the descendants of Meri and his brothers and nephews twenty men in total they also brought 220 of the temple servants a body that david and the officials had established to help the levites everyone was searched by name there by the ahava canal i proclaimed a fast so that we could humble ourselves before our god and ask for a safe journey for ourselves and our children with all our possessions.

I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from the enemies on the way because we had told the king that the merciful hand of our god is on all who look upon Him, but His great wrath is against all who abandon Him, so We fasted and asked our god about this and he answered our prayer. Then I separated 12 of the chief priests, namely Sharabaya Hashobaya and ten of his brothers, and weighed them. The offering of silver and gold and the objects that the king, his advisors, his officials and all Israel present there had donated for the house of our I wait for you 650 talents of silver silver objects that weigh one hundred talents 100 talents of gold 20 bowls of valued gold in a thousand dollars and two fine polished bronze objects as precious as gold, I told you, just like these objects are consecrated to the Lord, the silver and gold are a voluntary offering to the Lord, the god of your ancestors, guard them carefully until you weigh them.

In the chambers of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of the families of Israel then the priests and the Levites received the silver and the gold and the sacred objects that had been weighed to be carried away. to the house of our god in jerusalem on the twelfth day of the first month we left the ahava canal to go to jerusalem the hand of our god was upon us and protected us from enemies and bandits along the way so we arrived at jerusalem where we rested for three days On the fourth day in the house of our god we weighed the silver and the gold and the sacred objects in the hands of Merumoth the son of Uriah.

The priest Eliezer the son of Phineas was with him and also the Levites Joseph the son of Jesus and Noah the dyer son of Binui everything was counted in number and weight and the total weight was recorded at that time then the exiles who would return from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the god of Israel 12 bulls for all of Israel 96 rams 77 lambs and as a sin offering 12 goats all this was a burnt offering To the Lord they also delivered the king's orders to the royal satraps and the governors of the Transeuphrates who then assisted the people and the house of the god Ezra chapter nine after having done these things the leaders came to me and told me that the people of Israel , including the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices such as those of the Canaanites Hittites Perizzites Jebusites Ammonites Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons and have mixed the

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race with the surrounding peoples and the leaders and officials have led the way in this infidelity when I heard this, I tore my tunic and cloak removed the hair from my head and my beard and sat down or pulled me then all who trembled At the words of the god of Israel they gathered around me because of this infidelity of the exiles and I sat there in dismay until the afternoon sacrifice and then at the evening sacrifice i I rose from a cellar with my tunic and My cloak was torn and I fell on my knees with my hands outstretched to the Lord my God and I prayed.

I am too ashamed and dishonored, my god, to lift my face to you because our sins are higher than yours. heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens from the days of our ancestors until now our guilt has been great because of our sins we and our kings and our priests have been subjected to the sword and in captivity to plunder and humiliation at the hand of foreign kings as it is today but now for a brief moment the lord our god has been merciful and has left us a remnant and has given us a firm place in his sanctuary and that is why our god gives light to our eyes with a little relief in our slavery although we are our slavesGod has not abandoned us in our slavery, he has shown us kindness before the kings of Persia, he has granted us new life to rebuild the house of our god and repair its ruins, and he has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem, but now our God What can we say after this because we have abandoned the commandments that you gave through your servants the prophets when you said that the land that you are entering to possess is a land contaminated by the corruption of its people because of their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one extreme to the other, therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons, do not at any time seek a treaty of friendship with them so that you may be strong and eat the good things of the earth and leave it to them. your children as an eternal inheritance what has happened to us is the result of our bad actions and our great guilt and yet our God you have punished us less than our sins have deserved and have given us a remnant like this, then we will break your orders again and we will intermarry with the people who commit such detestable practices.

Do not be angry with us enough to destroy us and do not leave us any remnant or survivor lord the god of Israel you are just we remain today as a remnant here we are before you in our guilt although that is why none of us can bear it in your presence Ezra chapter 10 while Ezra prayed and confessed crying and throwing himself before the house of God a large crowd of Israelites men, women and children gathered around him they also wept bitterly then shekhaniyah son of jihad one of the descendants of elam said to

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we have been unfaithful to our god by marrying foreign women from the towns around us but despite this there is still hope for israel now let us make a pact before our god to send away all these women and children according to the advice of my lord and of those who fear the commandments of our god let it be done according to the law get up this matter is in your hands we will support you so take courage and do it like this Ezra stood up and he put the chief priests and the Levites and all Israel under oath to do what was suggested and they took an oath, then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohenan, son of the liar, while he He was there, he had no food or drink water because he continued to lament the infidelity of the exiles.

His proclamation was then issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem so that all the exiles would gather in Jerusalem. Anyone who did not appear within three days would lose all their property according to the decision of the officials and elders. and he himself would be expelled from the assembly of the exiles within three days that all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem and on the twentieth day of the ninth month all the people were sitting in the square before the house of God very distressed. Because of the occasion and because of the rain, then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them: You have been unfaithful, you have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.

Now honor the Lord, the god of your ancestors, and do his will. Separate yourself from the surrounding towns. you and your foreign wives the entire assembly responded loudly, you are right, we should do what you say, but there are many people here and it is the rainy season, so we cannot stay outside, besides, this matter is not discussed. can be resolved in a day or two because we have sinned greatly in this, that our officials act on behalf of the entire assembly and then that all those in our towns who have married a foreign woman come at the appointed time along with the elders and judges of each people until the wrath of our god is angry in this matter has departed from us, only Jonathan son of Azahil and Chai Zahyer son of Tikva supported by Mushulum and Shabbatai the Levite opposed this, so the exiles did what was proposed.

Ezra the priest selected men who were heads of families, one from each family. division and all of them designated by name on the first day of the tenth month they sat down to investigate the cases and on the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women among the descendants of the priests the following had been married to foreign women from the descendants of Joshua son of Joseph Josedark and his brothers Mahasaya Eliza Jared and Gedelia all gave their hands as a token of repudiating their wives and because of them they each presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering from the descendants of imma hanenai and zebediah of the descendants of harim mahasaya Elijah shamaya jihael and uzziah of the descendants of peshawar among the levites josebad shimiyai kalaya i.e. kalyta pethahaya judah and eliza of the musicians a liar of the porters shalom tilam and uri and among the other israelites from the descendants of ramayana izaya malkaija mijamin eliza malkija and banaya from the descendants of elam matanya zechariah jihael abdai jeremoth and Elijah from the descendants of zattoon elioenai eliashib matanaya jeremoth zabad and aziza from the descendants of bbi from the descendants of bainai meshulam maluk adaya jashub shiel and jerimot of the descendants of pehat moab adna kilal banaya mayasaya matanaya bezalel binyuai and manasseh of the descendants of harim eliza ishaija of the descendants of bainai maya dai amram yuel banaya bidiya kiluhai vanaya maramoth eliashib matanaya matanai and jayasu of the descendants of binuai shimayi shalamaya nathan adaya magnadabai and joseph of the descendants of nebo g-i-hal matataya all of these had married foreign women and some of them had children with these wives