These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezra 10
Tanakh 44 verses
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Now while prayed, and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of , there was gathered together unto him out of a very great congregation of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.
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Daniel 9:20 2 Chronicles 20:9 Psalm 119:136 Luke 19:41 1 Kings 8:30 1 John 1:8-10 Romans 9:2 Joel 2:16-18 Zechariah 12:10 Leviticus 26:40-41 Jeremiah 9:1 Psalm 32:5 Nehemiah 8:9 Deuteronomy 31:12 Jeremiah 13:17 Daniel 9:3-4 Hosea 14:2 Nehemiah 10:28 1 Kings 9:3 Judges 2:4-5 Acts 21:5 2 Chronicles 20:13 Acts 10:30 - 2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto : ‘We have broken with our , and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land; yet now there is for concerning this thing.
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Now therefore let us make a with our to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of , and of those that tremble at the of our ; and let it be done according to the .
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Deuteronomy 7:2-3 Ezra 9:4 Psalm 119:120 Deuteronomy 29:12 Isaiah 66:2 1 Corinthians 7:12-13 Joshua 23:12-13 2 Chronicles 34:27 2 Kings 11:17 Nehemiah 9:38 Nehemiah 8:14 Ezra 10:44 Nehemiah 10:29-39 Psalm 119:59 Isaiah 8:20 Ezekiel 9:4 2 Chronicles 30:12 2 Chronicles 29:10 Nehemiah 13:1-3 Joshua 9:6 2 Chronicles 34:21 2 Chronicles 34:31-32 - 4 Arise; for the matter belongeth unto thee, and we are with thee; be of good courage, and do it.’
- 5 Then arose , and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all , to swear that they would do according to this . So they swore.
- 6 Then rose up from before the house of , and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the faithlessness of them of the captivity.
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And they made proclamation throughout and unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto ;
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- 8 and that whosoever came not within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of the captivity.
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Then all the men of and gathered themselves together unto within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of , trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
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And the stood up, and said unto them: ‘Ye have broken , and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of .
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- 11 Now therefore make confession unto , the of your fathers, and do His pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.’
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Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice: ‘As thou hast said, so it is for us to do.
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But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
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- 14 Let now our princes of all the congregation stand, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our be turned from us, as touching this matter.’
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Only the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this matter; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the helped them.
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And the children of the captivity did so. And the , with certain heads of fathers’ houses, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were separated; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
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- 17 And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
- 18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women, namely: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
- 19 And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.
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And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
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And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and , and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
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And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, , Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
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And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah—the same is Kelita—Pethahiah, , and Eliezer.
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- 24 And of the singers: Eliashib; and of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
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And of : of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
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And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, , and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and .
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And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
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And of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
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And of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
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And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and .
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And of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon;
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- 32 , Malluch, Shemariah.
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Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, , Shimei.
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- 34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel;
- 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhu;
- 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib;
- 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasai;
- 38 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei;
- 39 Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah;
- 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai;
- 41 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah;
- 42 Shallum, Amariah, .
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Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, and , Benaiah.
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All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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