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16 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men,[a] 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.

18 Of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found Ma-asei′ah, Elie′zer, Jarib, and Gedali′ah, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jo′zadak and his brethren.

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  1. Ezra 10:16 1 Esdras 9.16: Syr: Heb and there were selected Ezra, etc.

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