15. Only Jonathan, Asahel’s son, and Jahzeiah, Tikvah’s son, opposed this; Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levites supported them.
16. Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest chose certain men, heads of families, each representing their family houses. Each of them was designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter.
17. 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 family of priests, there were found the following who had married foreign women—of the family of Jeshua, Jozadak’s son and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
19. They promised to send their wives away, and their compensation offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.
20. Of the family of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.