Ezra 10:2

10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, ¹  addressed Ezra:

“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying ²  foreign women from the local peoples. ³  Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. ⁴ 

Ezra 10:9

10:9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

Ezra 10:14

10:14 Let our leaders take steps ⁵  on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ⁶  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ⁷  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

[10:2]  ¹ tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew MSS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate עֵילָם (’elam, “Elam”) rather than the reading עוֹלָם (’olam, “eternity”) found in the MT.

[10:2]  ² tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.

[10:2]  ³ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

[10:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “upon this.”

[10:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “stand.”

[10:16]  ⁹ tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadÿlu, “were separated”) of the MT.

[10:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”