RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

and for our great trespass, seeing that You our Elohim
have punished us even less than our iniquities deserve,
and have given us such deliverance as this;
14 Should we again break Your mitzvoth, and join in
union with the people of these abominations? Would You
not be angry with us until You have consumed us, so that
there should be no remnant, or survivor?
15 O vuvh Elohim of Yisrael, You are tzadik: for we still
remain as a remnant, as it is this day: behold, we are
before You in our trespasses: for there is no one to stand
before You about this.
10
Now when Ezra had made tefillah, and when he had
confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the
Bayit of Elohim, there assembled to him out of Yisrael a
very great congregation of men and women and children:
for the people wept very bitterly.
2 And Shechanyah the son of Yehi-El, one of the sons of
Eylam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed
against our Elohim, and have taken strange wives from
the peoples of the land: yet now there is tikvah in Yisrael
concerning this thing.
3 Now therefore let us make a brit with our Elohim to put
away all the wives, and such as are born from them,
according to the counsel of my master, and of those that
tremble at the mitzvoth of our Elohim; and let it be done
according to the Torah.
4 Arise; for this matter belongs to you: we also will be
with you: be of tov courage, and do it.
5 Then Ezra arose, and made the heads of the Kohanim,
the Lewiym, and kol Yisrael, to swear that they should do
according to this word. And they swore.
6 Then Ezra rose up from before the Bayit of Elohim, and
went into the room of Yochanan the son of Eliashiv: and
when he came there, he did eat no lechem, nor drink
mayim: for he mourned because of the transgression of
those that had been carried away.
7 And they made proclamation throughout Yahudah and
Yahrushalayim to all the children of the exile, that they
should gather themselves together to Yahrushalayim;
8 And that whoever would not come within three days,
according to the counsel of the leaders and the zechanim,
all his substance should be forfeited, and himself
separated from the congregation of the exiles.
9 Then all the men of Yahudah and Benyamin gathered
themselves together to Yahrushalayim within three days.
It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month;
and all the people sat in the street of the Bayit of Elohim,
trembling because of this matter, and because of the huge
downpour.
10 And Ezra the kohen stood up, and said to them, You
have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to
increase the trespass of Yisrael.
11 Now therefore make confession to vuvh Elohim of
your ahvot, and do His pleasure: and separate yourselves
from the peoples of the land, and from the strange wives.
12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a
loud voice, As you have said, so must we do.
13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain,
and we are not able to stand outside, neither is this a work
of one, or two days: for we are many that have
transgressed in this thing.
14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and
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let all them who have taken strange wives in our cities
come at scheduled times, and with them the zechanim of
every city, and its shophtim, until the fierce wrath of our
Elohim for this matter has turned away from us.
15 Only Yonathan the son of Asah-El and Yahatzyah the
son of Tikvah gave them support about this matter: and
Meshullam and Shavethai the Lewite helped them.
16 And the children of the exile did so. And Ezra the
kohen, with certain heads of the ahvot, after the bayit of
their ahvot, and all of them by their names, were
separated, and sat down on the first day of the tenth
month to examine the matter.
17 And they had finished the list with all the men who
had taken strange non-Yisraelite wives by the first day of
the first month.
18 And among the sons of the Kohanim there were found
that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Yeshua
the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers; Maaseyah, and Eli-
Ezer, and Yariv, and Gedalyahu.
19 And they gave their hands in a pledge that they would put
away their strange wives; and being guilty, they offered a
ram of the flock for their trespass.
20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zevadyah.
21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseyah, and Eliyah, and
Shemayah, and Yehi-El, and Uziyahu.
22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elyo-Eynai, Maaseyah,
Yishmael, Natan-El, Yotzavad, and El-Asah.
23 Also of the Lewiym; Yotzabad, and Shimei, and Kelayah
– the same is Kelita – Pethahyah, Yahudah, and Eli-Ezer.
24 Of the singers also; Elyahshiv: and of the gatekeepers;
Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
25 Moreover of Yisrael: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiyah, and
Yeziyah, and Malchiyah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and
Malchiyah, and Beniyah.
26 And of the sons of Eylam; Mattanyah, Zacharyah, and
Yehi-El, and Avdi, and Yeremoth, and Eliyah.
27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elyo-Eynai, Eliashiv,
Mattanyah, and Yeremoth, and Zavad, and Aziza.
28 Of the sons also of Bevai; Yehohanan, Hananyah, Zavai,
and Athlai.
29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and
Adayah, Yashuv, and Sheal, and Ramot.
30 And of the sons of Pahath-Moav; Adna, and Chelal,
Benyahu, Maaseyah, Mattanyah, Bezal-El, and Binnui, and
Menashsheh.
31 And of the sons of Harim; Eli-Ezer, Yishiyah, Malchiyah,
Shemayah, Shimeon,
32 Benyamin, Malluch, and Shemaryah.
33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattattah, Zavad,
Eliphelet, Yeremai, Menashsheh, and Shimei.
34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
35 Benyahu, Bedeyah, Chelluh,
36 Vanyah, Meremoth, Eliashiv,
37 Mattanyah, Mattenai, and Yaasau,
38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
39 And Shelemyah, and Natan, and Adayah,
40 Machnadevai, Shashai, Sharai,
41 Azare-El, and Shelemyah, Shemaryah,
42 Shallum, Amaryah, and Yosef
43 Of the sons of Nevo; Yei-El, Mattithyah, Zavad, Zevina,
Yadau, and Yoel, Beniyah.
44 All these had taken foreign wives: and some of them had
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