Ezra 10:16

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The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Jerusalem was the restored center of Judah’s worship and civil life after the exile, where the returned community gathered under the authority of God’s law. In this passage, the investigation of unlawful marriages begins there because the city housed the assembly and its recognized leaders.

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Ezra 10:16 mentions Jerusalem.

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