Person Old Testament
Joseph
Joseph was among the Israelites who had married foreign women during the time of Ezra. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:42.
Why it matters. An Israelite who married a foreign woman
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Joseph
Joseph is mentioned in Ezr.10.42 as one of the Israelites who had married foreign women during the post-exilic period. After the return from Babylonian captivity, Ezra the scribe led a religious reform in Jerusalem (Ezra 7-10). It was discovered that many Israelites, including priests and Levites, had intermarried with the pagan peoples of the land, which was contrary to God's law (Ezr.9.1-2; Deu.7.3). Ezra prayed and confessed the sins of the people (Ezr.9.3-15), and the Israelites made a covenant to put away their foreign wives and children (Ezr.10.1-5). Joseph was among those listed who had taken foreign wives (Ezr.10.42).
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)