Esdras 10

1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly. 2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, "We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. 3 Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law. 4 Arise, for the matter belongs to you and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it."

5 Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore. 6 Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he didn’t eat bread or drink water, for he mourned because of the trespass of the exiles. 7 They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem; 8 and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and he himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

10 Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel. 11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers and do his pleasure. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women."

12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "We must do as you have said concerning us. 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. 14 Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved."

15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

16 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 17 They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

18 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women:

of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. 19 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.

22 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

23 Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

24 Of the singers: Eliashib.

Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

25 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.

26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

27 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

28 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

29 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

30 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

31 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, 32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.

33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu, 38 Bani, Binnui, Shimei, 39 Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, 41 Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, 42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah.

44 All these had taken foreign wives. Some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Ka Whāki ngā Tāngata

1 Nā, i a Etera e īnoi ana, e whāki hara ana, me te tangi, me te rutu i a ia ki mua i te whare o te Atua, nā, nui atu te hui i rūpeke ki a ia i roto i a Īharaira, ngā tāne, ngā wāhine, ngā tamariki, nui atu hoki te tangi i tangi ai te iwi. 2 Nā, ka oho a Hekania tama a Tehiere, ko tētahi nei ia o ngā tama a Erama, ka mea ki a Etera, Kua hē mātou ki tō tātou Atua, kua tango i ngā wāhine kē, i a ngā iwi o te whenua. Tēnei anō ia he mea e mārama ai ngā whakaaro o Īharaira ki tēnei mea. 3 Nā, kia whakaritea he kawenata ki tō tātou Atua, kia whakarērea aua wāhine katoa me ā rātou tamariki, kia rite ai ki te whakaaro i whakatakotoria e tōku ariki, e te hunga anō e wehi ana i te whakahau a tō tātou Atua; kia rite anō te meatanga ki tā te ture. 4 Whakatika, mau hoki te mahi; ā, ko mātou hei hoa mōu; kia uaua, meatia.

5 Kātahi ka whakatika a Etera, ā, whakaoatitia ana e ia ngā rangatira o ngā tohunga, o ngā Rīwaiti, o Īharaira katoa, kia meatia tēnei mea e rātou. Ā, oati ana rātou. 6 Kātahi a Etera ka whakatika i mua i te whare o te Atua, ā, haere ana ki te rūma o Iehohanana tama a Eriahipi. Ā, nō tōna taenga ki reira, kīhai ia i kai taro, kīhai i inu wai; e pōuri ana hoki ki te hē o te hunga i whakaraua.

7 Nā, ka karanga nui, puta noa i Hūrā, i Hiruhārama, ki ngā tama katoa o te whakarau, kia huihui ki Hiruhārama. 8 Nā, ko te tangata e kore e tae mai i ngā rā e toru, i tā ngā rangatira rātou ko ngā kaumātua i whakaaro ai, ka murua pūtia ōna rawa katoa, ā, ka motuhia ia i roto i te whakaminenga o ngā whakarau.

9 Nā, ko te huihuinga mai o ngā tāngata katoa o Hūrā, o Pineamine ki Hiruhārama i roto i aua rā e toru; ko te iwa tēnei o ngā marama, i te rua tekau o te marama. Nā, noho ana te iwi katoa i te marae o te whare o te Atua, wiri ana rātou, he whakaaro ki tēnei mea, he nui anō hoki te ua. 10 Nā, ka whakatika a Etera tohunga, ka mea ki a rātou, "Kua hē koutou, kua mārenatia ki ngā wāhine kē, nā, kua neke ake te hē o Īharaira. 11 Nā, whākina atu ngā hē ki a Ihowā, ki te Atua o ō koutou mātua, meatia hoki tāna i pai ai; motuhia mai hoki koutou i roto i ngā iwi o te whenua, i ngā wāhine kē hoki."

12 Nā, ka whakahokia e te iwi katoa, he nui ō rātou reo ki te mea: "Ka rite ki tāu kupu tā mātou e mea ai. 13 Otiia, he tokomaha te iwi, he wā ua nui hoki tēnei; e kore anō mātou e kaha ki te tū i waho, ehara hoki tēnei i te mahi mō te rā kotahi, mō ngā rā e rua rānei, he nui rawa hoki tō mātou hē i tēnei mea. 14 Nā, me whakarite ō tātou rangatira mō te huihui katoa, ā, me haere mai i ngā wā e whakaritea te hunga katoa kua mārena ki ngā wāhine kē i ō tātou pā, rātou ko ngā kaumātua o tēnei pā, o tēnei pā, me ngā kaiwhakawā o reira, kia tahuri atu rā anō i a tātou te riri kaha o tō tātou Atua, ā, kia tutuki rā anō tēnei mea. 15 Ko Honatana anake tama a Atahere rāua ko Tahatia tama a Tikiwa i tū atu ki tēnei mea, ā, ko ō rāua hoa ko Mehūrāma rāua ko Hapetai Rīwaiti."

16 Nā, i pēnā hoki ngā tama o te whakarau. Ā, ka wehea a Etera tohunga me ētahi upoko o ngā whare o ngā mātua nō tēnei whare, nō tēnei whare, o ō rātou mātua, he mea karanga katoa ō rātou ingoa; ā, noho ana rātou i te rā tuatahi o te tekau o ngā marama hei rapu i te tikanga o tēnei mea. 17 Poto rawa ake ngā tāngata katoa i mārena ki ngā wāhine kē, ko te rā tuatahi o te tuatahi o ngā marama.

Ngā Tāne he Wāhine Tauiwi a rātou

18 Nā, kua mau ētahi o ngā tama a ngā tohunga he mea mārena ki ngā wāhine kē: arā nō ngā tama a Hehua tama a Iohereke rātou ko ōna tēina; ko Maaheia, ko Eriētere, ko Iaripi, ko Keraria. 19 Nā, ka tukua mai ō rātou ringa, mō ā rātou wāhine kia whakarērea, ā, ka hē nei rātou, ka tāpaea he hipi toa o te kāhui mō tō rātou hē. 1 20 Nā, o ngā tama a Imere: 2 ko Hanani, ko Tepāria. 1 21 Ā, o ngā tama a Hārimi: 2 ko Maaheia, ko Irāia, ko Hemaia, ko Tehiere, ko Utia. 1 22 O ngā tama a Pahuru: 2 ko Erioenai, ko Maaheia, ko Ihimaera, ko Netanēre, ko Hotapara, ko Ereaha.

23 O ngā Rīwaiti: 2 ko Hotapara, ko Himei, ko Keraia, (arā ko Kerita), ko Petahia, ko Hūrā, ko Eriētere. 1 24 O ngā kaiwaiata: 2 ko Eriahipi. 1 O ngā kaitiaki kūwaha: 2 ko Harumu, ko Tereme, ko Uri.

25 Nā, o Īharaira: O ngā tama a Paroho: ko Ramia, ko Tetia, ko Marakia, ko Miamini, ko Ereātara, ko Marakia, ko Penaia. 26 O ngā tama a Erama: ko Matania, ko Hakaraia, ko Tehiere, ko Apari, ko Teremoto, ko Irāia. 27 O ngā tama a Tatu: ko Erioenai, ko Eriahipi, ko Matania, ko Teremoto, ko Tāpara, ko Atita. 28 O ngā tama a Pepai: ko Iehohanana, ko Hanania, ko Tapai, ko Atarai. 29 Ā, o ngā tama a Pani: ko Mehūrāma, ko Maruku, ko Araia, ko Iahupu, ko Heara, ko Rāmoto. 30 O ngā tama a Pahata Moapa: ko Arana, ko Kerara, ko Penaia, ko Maaheia, ko Matania, ko Petarēre, ko Pinui, ko Mānahi. 31 O ngā tama a Hārimi: ko Eriētere, ko Ihīa, ko Marakia, ko Hemaia, ko Himiona, 32 ko Pineamine, ko Maruku, ko Hemaria. 33 O ngā tama a Hahumu: ko Matenai, ko Matata, ko Tāpara, ko Eriperete, ko Teremai, ko Mānahi, ko Himei. 34 O ngā tama a Pani: ko Maarai, ko Āmarama, ko Uere, 35 ko Penaia, ko Pereia, ko Keru, 36 ko Wania, ko Meremoto, ko Eriahipi, 37 ko Matania, ko Matenai, ko Taahau, 38 ko Pani, ko Pinui, ko Himei, 39 ko Heremia, ko Nātana, ko Araia, 40 ko Makanarepai, ko Hahai, ko Harai, 41 ko Atarēre, ko Heremia, ko Hemaria, 42 ko Harumu, ko Amaria, ko Hōhepa. 43 O ngā tama a Nepo: ko Teiere, ko Matitia, ko Tāpara, ko Tepina, ko Iarau, ko Hoera, ko Penaia.

44 Ko ēnei katoa, he hunga kua tango i te wāhine kē, kei ētahi hoki o rātou he wāhine kua whānau tamariki.