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Ezra 10:16

Ezra chapter 10 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ houses, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ houses, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Context

v.15Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

v.16This passage

v.17And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 13:14

    then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,

  • Job 29:16

    I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

  • John 7:51

    Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?