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Holman Christian Standard Bible 
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Sending Away Foreign Wives
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|Esdras 10:1| While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling facedown a before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly. b
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|Esdras 10:2| Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, c an Elamite, responded to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the surrounding peoples, d but there is still hope for Israel in spite of this.
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|Esdras 10:3| Let us therefore make a covenant before our God e to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. f Let it be done according to the law.
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|Esdras 10:4| Get up, for this matter is your responsibility, g and we support you. Be strong and take action!” h
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|Esdras 10:5| Then Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said; so they took the oath. i
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|Esdras 10:6| Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. 1 He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles. j
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|Esdras 10:7| They circulated a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem.
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|Esdras 10:8| Whoever did not come within three days would forfeit all his possessions, 2 according to the decision of the leaders and elders, and would be excluded k from the assembly of the exiles.
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|Esdras 10:9| So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. On the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, l trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.
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|Esdras 10:10| Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to Israel’s guilt. m
