Ezr 10:2-3, 11-19 | ESV | STEP | And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel , of the sons of Elam , addressed Ezra : We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land , but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this .

Ezra 10:2-3

2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: ^a“We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. 3 Therefore ^blet us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and ^ctheir children, according to the counsel of my lord ^{▼▼Or of the Lord} and of ^ethose who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done ^faccording to the Law.

Ezra 10:11-19

11 Now then ^gmake confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. ^hSeparate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.” 12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said. 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. 14 Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come ⁱat appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, ^juntil the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.” 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and ^kMeshullam and ^lShabbethai the Levite supported them.

16 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, ^{▼▼Syriac; Hebrew And there were selected Ezra . . .} heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter; 17 and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

Those Guilty of Intermarriage

18 Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of ⁿJeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers. 19 They ^opledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was ^pa ram of the flock for their guilt. ^{▼▼Or as their reparation}