29. Clan of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Emathis
30. Clan of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth
31. Clan of Addi: Naathus, Moossias, Laccunus, Naidus, Bescaspasmys, Sesthel, Belnuus, and Manesseas
32. Clan of Annan: Elionas, Asiah, Melchiah, Sabbaiah, and Simon Chosemaeus
33. Clan of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Manasseh, and Shimei
34. Clan of Bani: Jeremai, Maadai, Amram, Joel, Mamdai, Bedeiah, Vaniah, Carabasion, Eliashib, Machnadebai, Eliasis, Binnui, Elialis, Shimei, Shelemiah, and NathaniahClan of Ezora: Shashai, Azarel, Azael, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Joseph
35. Clan of Nebo: Mattithiah, Zabad, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah
36. All these men had foreign wives. They divorced them and sent them and their children away.
37. The priests, the Levites, and many of the ordinary people of Israel settled in Jerusalem and its vicinity. By the seventh month the other Israelites were all settled in their towns. On the first day of that month
38. they all assembled in Jerusalem in the square just inside the east gate of the Temple.
39. They asked Ezra, the High Priest and scholar of the Law which the Lord had given Israel through Moses, to bring the book of the Law.
40. So Ezra brought it to the place where all the people — men, women, and all the priests — had gathered to hear it.