15:010:007 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto
           all the children of the captivity, that they should gather
           themselves together unto Jerusalem;

15:010:008 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according
           to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his
           substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the
           congregation of those that had been carried away.

15:010:009 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves
           together unto Jerusalem within three days.  It was the ninth
           month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people
           sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of
           this matter, and for the great rain.

15:010:010 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have
           transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the
           trespass of Israel.

15:010:011 Now therefore make confession unto the lord God of your
           fathers, and do his pleasure:  and separate yourselves from the
           people of the land, and from the strange wives.

15:010:012 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice,
           As thou hast said, so must we do.

15:010:013 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we
           are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one
           day or two:  for we are many that have transgressed in this
           thing.

15:010:014 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all
           them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at
           appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and
           the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this
           matter be turned from us.

15:010:015 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah
           were employed about this matter:  and Meshullam and Shabbethai
           the Levite helped them.

15:010:016 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.

15:010:017 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
           wives by the first day of the first month.

15:010:018 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had
           taken strange wives:  namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of
           Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib,
           and Gedaliah.

15:010:019 And they gave their hands that they would put away their
           wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for
           their trespass.