Ezra 10:14-16

International Standard Version

¹⁴ So let’s have our officials remain on behalf of the whole community. Then all who have married foreign wives are to come appear at specific times before^[a] the elders and judges of each city until the fierce anger of our God has been turned away from us in this matter.”

¹⁵ Only Asahel’s son Jonathan and Tikvah’s son Jahzeiah opposed this, and they were supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the descendant of Levi.

The People Carry Out Their Promise

¹⁶ So those who had returned from exile did this. Ezra the priest and leaders of certain ancestral groups listed by name devoted themselves to examine the situation on the first day of the tenth month.