Ezra - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 924

10--8 EZRA. Transportation, to assemble at jeru-

8 salem; and that every one who did not come at the third day, as advised by the Chiefs, and ]udges, all his pro- perty should be forfeited, and himself excluded from the Great Assembly. 9 T he whole of the Odicers of judah and Benjamin therefore collected at jerusalem on the third day, which was the twentieth of the ninth month, and all the people who sat in the Square of the House of GOD, were trembling about the business, and for the rains. Wye Quliliz Qclmie. xo Then Ezra the Priest arose, and said to them; ‘ You are guilty, and have married

foreign women, to add to the faults

1 r of Israel.-—But now confess it to the EvER·L1v1NG G0¤ of your fathers, and do what will please Him, and separate yourselves from the Peoples of the country, and from the wives you have married I ’ 12 All the assembly thereupon answered, and said with a loud

13 voice, “ Let it be done as you have said to us. The people are very wet and it is the Rainy Season,——-·and we are not able to stand outside,~·-and the business cannot be settled in a day or two,-·—fo1· we are many who

:4 have erred in this thing. Let our Chiefs, now, be appointed by all the public, and let anyone in our towns who have married strange women go to them, at appointed times, and the Magistrates of every village, and the about this matter is turned from us.

15 However jonathan·ben·Ashal and jha.ziah·ben·'I`hikna. stood up against this,-and Meshulam, and Shabthi the Levite, supported them. 16 18 The sons of the Transportation

effected it nevertheless, and they selected, with Ezra. the Priest, Princes heads of Families of their ancestors, and appointed all of them, to sit on the iirst day of the tenth month to examine into the business, and they finished about all the men who had married foreign women by the Hrst day of the first month. They also found some among the

sons of the Priests who had married foreign women, jeshua·ben·josadak and his brother Masiah, and Aliazer, 10——44

and jarib, and Gedaliah, but they undertook to divorce their wives, and offer a sin—oEering of the Bock for their sin. And from the Beni Amer Hanani,

and Zebadiah and from the Beni Kharim, Masiah, and Allah, and Shemiah, Ikhizal, and Uziah; and from the Beni Phashkur, Alzoaini, Masaiah, Ishmael, N athanal, jozabad, and Alashah. And from the Levites; jozabad,

Shimei, and Keliah, surnamed the Dwarf, Pethaiah, judah and Aliazor. And from the Singers; Aliashib. And from the Doorkeepers Shalum, and Telem, and Uri. And from Israel; From the Beni of Parosh; Raniah

and lziah, and Malkiah, and Beulah; 20 2I 22

and from the Beni Elam; Mataniah, 26 Zekariah, Allah; and of the Beni 27 Zatu, Aliani, Aliashib, Mataniah, and jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aiziza. And of the Beni Babi, 28 jhohanan, Hananiah, Zabi, Athli; and from the Beni Meshulam, Malek, 29 and Abdiah, jashub, and Shal, and Ramoth. From the Beni Pathath 30 Moab; Adna, and Kalab, Benaiah, Masiah, Mataniah, Bozalal, and Binni, and Manaseh. And of the Beni I-Iarum; Aliazer, Ishiah, Malkiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, Benjamin, Maluk, Shemoriah; Of the Beni Hashum; Matni, Matatah, Zabad, Alifelet, jerirni, Manaseh, Shimi; Of the Beni Bani; Madi, Amram, and Auwel Benaiah, Bedaiah, Keluhi; Veniah, Meremoth, Aliashib, Mata- riah, Matani, and jasu; and Bani, and Binni, Shinai, and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adiah, Maknadabi, Shashi, Shari, Azarel, and Shelerniah, Shemeriah, Shalum,Amariah,joseph; Of the Beni Nebo jebel, Matithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Ido, and joel, Beniah. 33 34 35 37 39 43

All these had married foreign 44 women, and some of these wives had borne children. . 1 No·rr.——Ch. xo, v. 44. The End of Ezra,

as we have lt in the Hebrew texts, is appar- lonla frament of his autobiorah enty y ggpy, for it evidently stops in the middle 0 a sen- tence, either by the death of that statesman, or from accident to his manuscript; hence, I would suggest that the books in the Apoc· rypha, w ich have come down to us only by a Greek translation, are really parts of his history, and should follow on here.—·~F. F END OF HISTORY OF THE SECOND Ezna, 924