Ezra 10:18-44·~1 min

Those Guilty of Intermarriage

The list begins with priestly descendants from the line of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers. These men pledge to send away their wives and bring a ram as a guilt offering.

A¹⁸mong the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: ¹⁹Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.

The register continues through priestly families, then names Levites, singers, and gatekeepers among those involved. The list shows that the offense reaches across the temple community.

²⁰From the descendants of Immer: ²¹From the descendants of Harim: ²²From the descendants of Pashhur: ²³Among the Levites: ²⁴From the singers:

The list turns to the other Israelites and moves family by family through Parosh, Elam, Zattu, Bebai, Bani, Pahath-moab, and Harim. The repeated pattern gives the record a steady, formal weight.

²⁵And among the other Israelites, from the descendants of Parosh: ²⁶From the descendants of Elam: ²⁷From the descendants of Zattu: ²⁸From the descendants of Bebai: ²⁹From the descendants of Bani: ³⁰From the descendants of Pahath-moab: ³¹From the descendants of Harim:

Individual names are given from the descendants of Harim, Hashum, and Bani. The register slows into personal detail, showing the breadth of the matter within these families.

³²Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. ³³From the descendants of Hashum: ³⁴From the descendants of Bani: ³⁵Maadai, Amram, Uel, Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, ³⁶Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, ³⁷Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu.

The final names come from Binnui and Nebo, and the list closes by noting that all these men had married foreign women. Some of the marriages had also brought children.

³⁸From the descendants of Binnui: ³⁹Shimei, Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, ⁴⁰Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, ⁴¹Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, ⁴²Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. ⁴³And from the descendants of Nebo: ⁴⁴All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

Section summaryThe chapter ends with a long register of those found to have married foreign women, beginning with priests and moving through Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and other Israelites. The list gives the reform a concrete human record and ends by noting that some of these unions had produced children.

Role in the chapterThis final section records the outcome in names rather than speeches. It grounds the chapter’s corporate repentance in a public accounting of the people involved.