Verse 4
Ezra 10:4
Bible in Basic English
4
Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.
Original Language Text
hebrew
ק֛וּם כִּֽי עָלֶ֥י/ךָ הַ/דָּבָ֖ר וַ/אֲנַ֣חְנוּ עִמָּ֑/ךְ חֲזַ֖ק וַ/עֲשֵֽׂה
English Translation
Get up, for the word is upon you, and we are with you; be strong and do.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 10 Context
1
Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down befor...
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And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evi...
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Let us now make an agreement with our God (Elohim) to put away all the wives and all their children,...
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Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.
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Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath tha...
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Then Ezra got up from before the house of God (Elohim) and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son...
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And they made a public statement through all Judah and Jerusalem, to all those who had come back, th...
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And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the respon...
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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it wa...
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And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women fo...
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So now, give praise to the Lord, the God (Elohim) of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and make you...
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Then all the people, answering, said with a loud voice, As you have said, so it is right for us to d...
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But the number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on...
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So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people, and let all those in our towns who are...
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Only Jonathan, the son of Asahel, and Jahzeiah, the son of Tikvah, were against this, Meshullam and...
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So those who had come back did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of families, by their fat...
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And they got to the end of all the men who were married to strange women by the first day of the fir...
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And among the sons of the priests who were married to strange women were these: of the sons of Jeshu...
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And they gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offer...
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And of the sons of Immer, Hanani and Zebadiah.
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And of the sons of Harim, Maaseiah and Elijah and Shemaiah and Jehiel and Uzziah.
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And of the sons of Pashhur, Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
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And of the Levites, Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (that is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer...
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And of the music-makers, Eliashib; and of the door-keepers, Shallum and Telem and Uri.
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And of Israel, the sons of Parosh, Ramiah and Izziah and Malchijah and Mijamin and Eleazar and Malch...
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And of the sons of Elam, Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel and Abdi and Jeremoth and Elijah.
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And of the sons of Zattu, Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth and Zabad and Aziza.
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And of the sons of Bebai, Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
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And of the sons of Bani, Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub and Sheal, Jeremoth.
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And of the sons of Pahath-moab, Adna and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel and Binnui an...
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And of the sons of Harim, Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
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Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
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Of the sons of Hashum, Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
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Of the sons of Bani, Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
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Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
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Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
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Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
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And Bani and Binnui, Shimei;
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And Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah,
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Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
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Azarel and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
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Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
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Of the sons of Nebo, Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
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All these had taken strange wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had offspring.
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