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Clan of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Emathis
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Clan of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth
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Clan of Addi: Naathus, Moossias, Laccunus, Naidus, Bescaspasmys, Sesthel, Belnuus, and Manasseas
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Clan of Annan: Elionas, Asiah, Melchiah, Sabbaiah, and Simon Chosamaeus
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Clan of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Manasseh, and Shimei
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Clan of Bani: Jeremai, Maadai, Amram, Joel, Mamdai, Bedeiah, Vaniah, Carabasion, Eliashib, Machnadebai, Eliasis, Binnui, Elialis, Shimei, Shelemiah, and Nathaniah Clan of Ezora: Shashai, Azarel, Azael, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Joseph
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Clan of Nebo: Mattithiah, Zabad, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah
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All these men had foreign wives. They divorced them and sent them and their children away.
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The priests, the Levites, and many of the ordinary people of Israel settled in Jerusalem and its vicinity. By the seventh month the other Israelites were all settled in their towns. On the first day of that month
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they all assembled in Jerusalem in the square just inside the east gate of the Temple.
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They asked Ezra, the High Priest and scholar of the Law which the Lord had given Israel through Moses, to bring the book of the Law.