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Person Old Testament

Malluch

Also known as Malluch =ESV, KJV; Malluk =NIV

Malluch, a descendant of Bani, divorced his foreign wife during Ezra's reforms. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:29.

Why it matters. Descendant of Bani, who divorced his foreign wife.

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2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team

About Malluch

Malluch was a man from the family of Bani who had married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra. As part of Ezra's reforms to purify the Jewish community, Malluch and others who had married foreign wives were required to divorce them (Ezr.10.29).

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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Appears in Scripture

Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

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