and reciteth those which had married such wemen.
1 Esdras therfore thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping,
and lying before the temple of God, there was gathered
to him of Israel an exceeding great companie of men
and wemen and children, and the people wept with much lamentation.
2 And Sechenias the sonne of Iehiel of the children
of Aelam answered, and said to Esdras: We haue transgressed
against our God, and haue taken to wiues strange wemen
of the peoples of the land: and now if there be penance
in Israel vpon this,
3 let vs make a couenant with the Lord
our God, to put away al the wiues, and them that are borne
of them, according to the wil of our Lord, and of them that
feare the precept of the Lord our God: be it done according
to the law.
4 Arise, it is thy part to discerne, and we wil be
with thee: take courage, and doe it.
5 Esdras therefore rose
vp, and adiured the Princes of the Priestes and of the
Leuites, and al Israel, that they should doe according to this
word, and they sware.
6 And Esdras rose vp before the house
of God, and went to the chamber of note Iohanan the sonne of
Eliasib, and entered into it, he did eate no bread, and dranke
no water: for he mourned for the transgression of them, that
were come out of the captiuitie.
7 And there was a proclamation
sent in Iuda and Ierusalem to al the children of the transmigration,
that they should assemble together into Ierusalem.
8 And eurie one that shal not come within three dayes,
according to the counsel of the princes and ancientes, al his
substance shal be taken away, and him selfe shal be cast out
of the companie of the transmigration.
9 There assembled
therfore al the men of Iuda, and Beniamin into Ierusalem
within three dayes, that is the ninth moneth, the twenteth
day of the moneth: and al the people sate in the streate of the
house of God, trembling for the sinne, and note the rayne.
10 And
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Esdras the Priest arose, and sayd to them: You haue transgressed,
and taken strange wemen to wife, to adde vpon the
sinne of Israel.
11 And now geue confession to our Lord the
God of your fathers, and doe his pleasure, and be separated
from the peoples of the land, and from your wiues the strangers.
12 And al the multitude answered, and sayd with a lowde
voyce: According to thy word vnto vs, so be it done.
13 Neuerthelesse
because there is much people, and a tyme of rayne,
and we can not abyde to stand without, and it is not a worke
of one day or two (for we haue excedingly sinned in this
thing)
14 let there be princes appoynted in al the multitude:
and let al in our cities that haue taken strangers to wife, come
at sette tymes, and with them the ancientes by citie and citie,
and the iudges therof, vntil the wrath of our God be turned
away from vs for this sinne.
15 Therfore Ionathan the sonne
of Azahel, and Iaazia the sonne of Thecua were appoynted
ouer this, and Mesollam and Sebethai Leuites did helpe
them:
16 and the children of the transmigration did so. And
Esdras the Priest, and the men, princes of the families went
into the houses of theyr fathers, and al by theyr names, and
they sate in the first day of the tenth moneth to search out
the matter.
17 And al the men were fully counted that had
taken strangers to wife, vnto the first day of the first mosneth.
18 And there were found of the sonnes of the Priestes
that had taken strangers to wife. Of the children of Iosue
the sonne of Iosedec, and his brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer,
and Iarib, and Godolia.
19 And they gaue theyr handes to put
away theyr wiues, and to offer for theyr offence a ramme of
the flocke.
20 And of the children of Emmer, Hanani, and
Zebedia.
21 And of the children of Harim, Maasia, and Elia,
and Semeia, and Iehiel, and Ozias.
22 And of the children of
Pheshur, Elionai, Maasia, Ismael, Nathanael, Iozabed, and
Elasa.
23 And of the children of the Leuites, Iozabed, and
Semei, and Celaia, the same is Calita, Phataia, Iuda, and
Eliezer.
24 And of the singing men Eliasib: and of the porters,
Sellum, and Thelem, and Vri.
25 And of Israel, of the children
of Pharos, Remeia, and Iezia, and Melchia, and Miamin,
and Eliezer, and Melchia, and Banea.
26 And of the children
of Aelam, Mathania, Zacharias, and Iehiel, and Abdi,
and Ierimoth, and Elia.
27 And of the children of Zethua,
Elioenai, Eliasib, Mathania, Ierimuth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
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Artaxerxes.
28 And of the children of Bebai, Iohanan, Hanamia, Zabbai,
Athalai:
29 And of the children of Bani, Mosollam, and Melluch,
and Adaia, Iasub, and Saal, and Ramoth.
30 And of the
children of Phahath Moab, Edna and Chalal, Bananias, and
Maasias, Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.
31 And
of the children of Herem, Eliezer, Iosue, Melchias, Semeias,
Simeon,
32 Beniamin, Maloch, Samarias.
33 And of the children
of Hasom, Mathanai, Mathatha, Zabad, Eliphelet, Iermai,
Manasse, Semei.
34 Of the children of Bani, Maaddi, Amram,
and Vel,
35 Baneas, and Badaias, Cheliau,
36 Vania, Marimuth,
and Eliasib,
37 Mathanias, Mathanai, and Iasi,
38 and
Bani, and Bennui, Semei,
39 and Salmias, and Nathan, and
Adaias,
40 and Mechnedebai, Sisai, Sarai,
41 Ezrel, and Selemiau,
Semeria,
42 Sellum, Amaria, Ioseph
43 Of the children
of Nebo, Iehiel, Mathathias, Zabad, Zabina, Ieddu, and Ioel.
and Banaia.
44 Al these had taken strangers to wife, and there
were of them that had borne note children.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
