Ezra 10:40

Study note

Setting — Ezra records the names of men who had married foreign women, continuing a sequential list that begins in Ezra 10:39 and extends into Ezra 10:41. The passage functions as an administrative register rather than a narrative scene.

The words — מַכְנַדְבַ֥י (makh.nad.Vai) and שָׁשַׁ֖י (sha.Shai) appear as consecutive personal names in the Hebrew text. The supplied lexical data identifies them strictly as proper nouns without etymological explanation.

The thread — This verse belongs to the broader Ezra 10 record of men who confessed and severed marriages with foreign women. The same structural pattern of listing individual names appears in Ezra 10:39 and Ezra 10:41.

Why it lands — It requires the reader to track specific individuals within a larger communal account of covenant fidelity. The text demands recognition that corporate repentance is documented through concrete personal names.

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