Thomson(i)
11 now therefore, give praise to the Lord God of our fathers, and do what is well-pleasing in his sight, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.
12 In reply to which, all the congregation said, We take upon us the performance of this great thing which thou hast spoken;
13 but the people are numerous and the weather stormy, so that we cannot stand out of doors, and this is not a work of one or two days; for we have multiplied transgression in this respect.
14 Let our chiefs, we pray thee, attend; and let all those in our cities who have taken strange wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders of each respective city, and the judges, that they may turn away from us the fierce anger of our God for this matter.
15 Besides Jonathan son of Asael, and Josias son of Thekoe, there were with me in this business, Mesollam and Sabbathai the Levite who assisted them.
16 And this was the manner in which the children of the captivity acted. There were set apart Esdras the priest, and head men of families for every house, and all who were named were to return on the first day of the tenth month, to make strict inquiry into this matter.
17 And when they had finished with all the men who had taken strange wives, having continued the examination to the first day of the first month,
18 there were found of the sons of the priests, who had taken strange wives; of the sons of Jesus son of Josedek these brethren of his, Maasia and Eliezer and Jarib and Gadalia,
19 and they gave their hand to put away their wives, and offered a trespass ram of the flock, for their transgression: