Ezra 10:29

Study note

Setting — Ezra records a census of Israelite men who married foreign women, specifying that six individuals from the clan of Bani were among those required to end those unions. The list functions as an administrative ledger during the post-exilic covenant renewal.

The words — The Hebrew phrase וּמִבְּנֵי בָנִי (u.mi.be.Nei ba.Ni) literally means "and of the sons of Bani," serving as the formal heading for the family line being enumerated.

The thread — This clan appears earlier in Ezra 2:10 with a recorded population of 642 descendants and reappears in Nehemiah 10:4 through the shared signatory name Malluch. The textual continuity tracks the same genealogical group across the return from exile.

Why it lands — The text demands precise lineage identification to enforce the covenant boundary, requiring the reader to accept that communal faithfulness depends on unambiguous accountability rather than vague affiliation.

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