And when these things were finished, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands in their abominations, [even] the Cannanite, the Hittites, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, and the Moserite and the Amorite.

They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.

He shall take for a wife a virgin of his own tribe.

And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I [am] the Lord that sanctifies him.

And Eli was very old, and he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel.

No my sons! For the report which I hear is not good. Do not [do] so, for the reports which I hear are not good, so that the people do not serve God.

And Elishub the high priest, [one] of the sons of Joiada, son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, I chased away from me.

For priest and prophet are defiled, and I have seen their iniquities in My house.

Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way. They have all become to Me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

Neither shall they take to themselves a widow for a wife, or one that is put away, but a virgin of the seed of Israel. But if there should happen to be a priest's widow, they shall take [her].

But you have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in [following] the law: you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.

And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have been partial in the law.

Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

[Those] who came with Zerubbabel [were]: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, [and] Baanah. The number of the people of Israel:

Then stood up Jeshua the [son] of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the [son] of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer upon it whole burnt offerings, according to the things that were written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Then Zerubbabel the [son] of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jehozadak rose up, and began to build the house of God that was in Jerusalem, and with them [were] the prophets of God assisting them.

Azariah begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak.

And Jehozadak went into captivity with Judah and Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar.

And Jeshua begot Joiakim, and Joiakim begot Eliashib, and Eliashib [begot] Joiada,

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

And the Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and the Devil stood on his right hand to resist him.

And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden stage, and there stood next to him Mattithiah, Shema, Hanani, Urijah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and at his left [stood] Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

And Jeshua, Bani and Sherebiah instructed the people in the law, and the people [stood] in their place.