Ezra 10:35

Study note

Setting — Ezra records the names of men from the descendants of Bani who confessed to intermarrying with foreign women. The list functions as an official register of those who agreed to put away their wives and children.

The words — The Hebrew text supplies בְּנָיָ֥ה (be.na.Yah), בֵדְיָ֖ה (ve.de.Yah), and כְּלֽוּהוּ\׃ (ke.la.hai) as proper names. These terms appear strictly as identifiers in the manuscript without additional descriptive modifiers.

The thread — This verse operates within Ezra’s catalog of covenant violators who submitted to religious reform. The same structural pattern of listing names by clan appears throughout Ezra 10:18–44 and parallels the administrative registers in Nehemiah 7.

Why it lands — The text demands recognition of how communal repentance was documented through specific genealogical accountability. It places the burden of verification on the reader to track individual names within a corporate covenant response.

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