Ezra 10:30
New International Version
From the descendants of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh.

New Living Translation
From the family of Pahath-moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

English Standard Version
Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

Berean Standard Bible
From the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

King James Bible
And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

New King James Version
of the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;

New American Standard Bible
and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;

NASB 1995
and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh;

NASB 1977
and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;

Legacy Standard Bible
and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh;

Amplified Bible
and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;

Christian Standard Bible
Pahath-moab’s descendants: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Pahath-moab’s descendants: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;

American Standard Version
And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

Contemporary English Version
Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh from the family of Pahath Moab;

English Revised Version
And of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
From the descendants of Pahath Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh

Good News Translation
Clan of Pahath Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh

International Standard Version
From Pahath-moab's descendants: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

Majority Standard Bible
From the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

NET Bible
From the descendants of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

New Heart English Bible
Of the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

Webster's Bible Translation
And of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

World English Bible
Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And of the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

Young's Literal Translation
And of the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

Smith's Literal Translation
And from the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And of the sons of Phahath, Moab, Edna, and Chalal, Banaias, and Maasias, Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And from the sons of Pahath-moab, Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, and Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

New American Bible
of the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;

New Revised Standard Version
Of the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And of the sons of Shultan-moab, Gedaliah, Celal, Benaniah, Maasiah, Mattaniah, Bezaliel, and his sons, descendants of Manasseh.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And from the sons of Shultan: Moab, Gedalia, Kelal, Benayah, Massia, Methanya, Betsalieil and his sons, the sons of Manasheh.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And of the sons of Phaath Moab; Edne, and Chalel, and Banaia, Maasia, Matthania, Beseleel, and Banui, and Manasse.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Those Guilty of Intermarriage
29From the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. 30From the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. 31From the descendants of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,…

Cross References
Nehemiah 13:23-27
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. / Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah. / I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves! ...

Deuteronomy 7:3-4
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

1 Kings 11:1-2
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

Malachi 2:11
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

2 Corinthians 6:14-17
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ...

Exodus 34:15-16
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. / And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

1 Corinthians 7:12-14
To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. / And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. / For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Judges 3:5-6
Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

1 Kings 16:31
And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.

Nehemiah 10:30
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. / I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. / But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

Joshua 23:12-13
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

2 Kings 17:33-34
They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away. / To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

2 Chronicles 19:2
Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.

Matthew 19:4-6
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ / and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? / So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”


Treasury of Scripture

And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

Pahath-moab

Ezra 2:6
The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

Ezra 8:4
Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.

Nehemiah 7:11
The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.

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Adna Benaiah Benai'ah Bezaleel Bezalel Bez'alel Binnui Bin'nui Children Descendants Maaseiah Ma-Asei'ah Manasseh Manas'seh Mattaniah Mattani'ah Pahathmoab Pahath-Moab Pa'hath-Mo'ab
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Adna Benaiah Benai'ah Bezaleel Bezalel Bez'alel Binnui Bin'nui Children Descendants Maaseiah Ma-Asei'ah Manasseh Manas'seh Mattaniah Mattani'ah Pahathmoab Pahath-Moab Pa'hath-Mo'ab
Ezra 10
1. Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages
6. Ezra assembles the people
9. The people repent, and promise amendment
15. The care to perform it
18. The names of them which had married strange wives














From the descendants of Pahath-moab:
The Pahath-moab family is one of the prominent priestly families that returned from the Babylonian exile. The name "Pahath-moab" means "governor of Moab," indicating a possible historical connection to the region of Moab, east of the Dead Sea. This family is mentioned in the context of the returnees who were committed to restoring the covenant with God, emphasizing the importance of lineage and heritage in post-exilic Israel.

Adna:
Adna is listed among those who had taken foreign wives, which was against the Mosaic Law. The name Adna means "pleasure" or "delight." This highlights the personal and communal struggle to adhere to the covenant, as intermarriage with foreign nations often led to idolatry and a departure from God's commands.

Chelal:
Chelal is another individual who had married a foreign woman. The name Chelal means "completion" or "perfection." This reflects the ongoing process of purification and restoration that the community was undergoing, striving for spiritual completeness by adhering to the Law.

Benaiah:
Benaiah, meaning "Yahweh has built," is a name that appears frequently in the Old Testament, often associated with valiant warriors or faithful servants. This underscores the call for spiritual strength and faithfulness in the face of cultural and religious challenges.

Maaseiah:
Maaseiah, meaning "work of Yahweh," is a common name in the Bible, often associated with priests or Levites. This highlights the role of religious leaders in guiding the community back to faithfulness and the importance of divine intervention in the restoration process.

Mattaniah:
Mattaniah, meaning "gift of Yahweh," signifies the grace and provision of God in the lives of His people. This name serves as a reminder of the blessings that come from obedience and the importance of dedicating one's life to God's service.

Bezalel:
Bezalel, meaning "in the shadow of God," is a name that evokes the protection and guidance of the Almighty. In the context of Ezra, it emphasizes the need for divine oversight and wisdom as the community seeks to align itself with God's will.

Binnui:
Binnui, meaning "built up," reflects the theme of rebuilding and restoration that is central to the book of Ezra. This name underscores the physical and spiritual reconstruction of Jerusalem and the temple, as well as the reestablishment of the covenant community.

Manasseh:
Manasseh, meaning "causing to forget," is a name that carries historical weight, as it is associated with one of the tribes of Israel. This name may symbolize the hope of moving past the sins of the past and embracing a renewed commitment to God. It also serves as a reminder of the need for repentance and the possibility of redemption.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Pahath-moab
A family or clan within the tribe of Judah, known for returning from the Babylonian exile. The name suggests a connection to Moab, possibly indicating ancestral ties or geographical origins.

2. Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, Manasseh
These are individuals from the family of Pahath-moab who were identified as having married foreign women, which was against the covenantal laws of Israel at the time.

3. The Event of Repentance
This chapter describes a significant event where the Israelites, under Ezra's leadership, repented for intermarrying with foreign women, which was seen as a violation of their covenant with God.
Teaching Points
The Importance of Obedience to God's Law
The Israelites' decision to separate from foreign wives demonstrates the importance of adhering to God's commandments, even when it requires difficult personal sacrifices.

Repentance and Restoration
True repentance involves acknowledging wrongdoing and taking concrete steps to correct it. The actions of the Israelites in Ezra 10 serve as a model for genuine repentance.

Community Accountability
The collective action taken by the Israelites under Ezra's leadership shows the importance of community accountability in maintaining spiritual integrity.

Guarding Against Spiritual Compromise
The marriages to foreign women represented a spiritual compromise that threatened the Israelites' covenant relationship with God. Believers today must be vigilant against influences that can lead them away from their faith.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
From the descendants
וּמִבְּנֵ֛י (ū·mib·bə·nê)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of
פַּחַ֥ת (pa·ḥaṯ)
0
Strong's Hebrew

Pahath-moab:
מוֹאָ֖ב (mō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6355: Pahath-moab -- a postexilic name

Adna,
עַדְנָ֣א (‘aḏ·nā)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5733: Adna -- two Israelites

Chelal,
וּכְלָ֑ל (ū·ḵə·lāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3636: Chelal -- an Israelite

Benaiah,
בְּנָיָ֤ה (bə·nā·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1141: Benaiah -- 'Yah has built up', the name of several Israelites

Maaseiah,
מַעֲשֵׂיָה֙ (ma·‘ă·śê·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4641: Maaseiah -- 'work of Yah', the name of a number of Israelites

Mattaniah,
מַתַּנְיָ֣ה (mat·tan·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4983: Mattaniah -- 'gift of Yah', the last king of Judah, also a number of Israelites

Bezalel,
בְצַלְאֵ֔ל (ḇə·ṣal·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1212: Bezalel -- 'in the shadow (protection) of El', two Israelites

Binnui,
וּבִנּ֖וּי (ū·ḇin·nui)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1131: Binnui -- 'his son', an Israelite

and Manasseh.
וּמְנַשֶּֽׁה׃ (ū·mə·naš·šeh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4519: Manasseh -- 'causing to forget', a son of Joseph, also a king of Judah, also two Israelites


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