Ezra 10 עזרא י׳

And in Ezra's praying and confessing, crying and fallen before the house of G-d, there gathered before him of Israel a vast assemblage of men and women and children, the people weeping profusely.

And Shechanyah the son of Yechiel of the sons of Eilam called out and said to Ezra: We have been faithless to our G-d and have taken into our houses foreign women of the peoples of the land. But now, there is hope for Israel for this [i.e., We can send away these women and the children born of them.]

And now, let us make a covenant with our G-d to send out all the [foreign] women and those born to them, by the will of the L-rd. And those who are zealous for the mitzvah of our G-d [will do so]; and he will be acting in accordance with the Torah.

Arise, for the thing depends upon you, and we will be with you; strengthen yourself and do!

And Ezra arose and adjured the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and (of) all of Israel to act in accordance with this thing, and they swore.

And Ezra rose from before the house of G-d and went to the chamber of Yehonathan the son of Elyashiv. And he went there [(fasting)]. He ate no bread and drank no water, for he was [still] mourning the faithlessness of the exile.

And they made proclamation in Judah and in Jerusalem for all the sons of the exile to gather in Jerusalem.

And (they proclaimed that) anyone who would not come by [the end of] three days, as mandated by the chiefs and the elders, all of his property would be confiscated and he would be separated from the congregation of the exile.

And all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem at [the end of] three days, in the ninth month [Kislev], in the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the thoroughfare of the house of G-d, trembling over the thing [(the transgression)] and over the rains [descending] upon them.

And Ezra the priest arose and said: You were faithless and took foreign women into your houses to add to the guilt of Israel.

And now, make confession to the L-rd, the G-d of your fathers, and do His will, and separate yourselves from the people of the land and from the foreign women.

And all the congregation answered and said in a loud voice: Yes, as you say, so must we do.

But the people are many, and it is a time of rain, and they have no strength to stand outside, and the work is not for one day and not for two, for we have offended profusely in this thing.

Let, now, our chiefs stand with all the congregation, and let all [i.e., each one] in our cities who has taken foreign women into his house come at designated times, and with them, the elders of each city and its judges, until the wrath of our G-d is removed from us, until [the elimination of] this thing.

But Jonathan the son of Asahel and Yachzeyah the son of Tikvah stood up against this, and Meshulam and Shabthai the Levite abetted them.

And the sons of the exile did so [(as exhorted to do)], and there were set aside [(to effect this)] Ezra the priest (and) men who were the heads of the families of their fathers' houses, all men of renown; and they convened on the first day of the tenth month [(Teveth)] to search out the matter.

And they completed [dealing with] all the men who had taken foreign women into their houses by the first day of the first month [(Nissan), all these women having been sent away by that time].

And there were found of the sons of the priests who had taken foreign women into their houses, of the sons of Yeshua the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers, Ma'aseyah and Eliezer and Yariv and Gedalyah.

And they took counsel to send away their wives, and they were made to bring (as an offering) a ram of the flock for their guilt [(an extraordinary ruling, for that contingency)].

And ("there were found of the sons of the priests, etc."), of the sons of Immer: Chanani and Zevadyah.

And of the sons of Charim: Ma'aseyah and Eliyah and Shemayah and Yechiel and Uziyah.

And of the sons of Pashchur: Elyoeinai, Ma'aseyah, Yishmael, Nethanel, Yozavad, and Elassa.

And of the Levites: Yozavad and Shim'i and Kelayah (the same as "K'lita"), Pethachyah, Yehudah, and Eliezer.

And of the singers, Elyashiv; and of the gatekeepers, Shalum and Telem and Uri.

And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh, Ramyah and Yiziyah and Malkiyah and Miyamin and Elazar and Malchiyah and Benayah.

And of the sons of Eilam: Matanyah, Zecharyah and Yechiel and Avdi and Yeremoth and Eliyah.

And of the sons of Zatu: Elyoeinai, Elyashiv, Matanyah, and Yeremoth and Zavad and Aziza.

And of the sons of Bevai: Jonathan, Chananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.

And of the sons of Bani: Meshulam, Maluch, and Adayah, Yashuv, Sha'al, Yeramoth.

And of the sons of Pachath: Moav, Adna, Chelal, Benayah, Ma'aseyah, Matanyah, Betzalel, and Binnui and Menasheh.

And the sons of Charim: Eliezer, Yeshiyah, Malkiyah, Shemayah, Shimon,

Binyamin, Maluch, Shemaryah.

Of the sons of Chashum: Matnai, Matatah, Zavad, Elifelet, Yereimai, Menasheh, Shim'i.

Of the sons of Bani: Ma'adai, Amram, and Uel,

Benayah, Bedyah, Keluhu,

Vanyah, Meremoth, Elyashiv,

Matanyah, Matnai, and Ya'asai,

and Bani and Binnui, Shim'i,

and Shelemyah and Nathan and Adayah,

Machnadvai, Shashai, Sarai,

Azarel and Shelemyahu, Shemaryah,

Shalum, Amaryah, Yosef.

Of the sons of Nevo: Yeiel, Matithyah, Zavad, Zevina, Yaadai and Yoel, Benayah.

All these married foreign women, some of them having (foreign) wives of whom they had children [(and they sent away both the wives and the children)].