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Pethahiah
Pethahiah, a Levite who married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:23.
Why it matters. Levite who married a foreign woman
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Pethahiah
Pethahiah was a Levite who had married a foreign woman, according to Ezr.10.23. After the Babylonian exile, Ezra led a religious reform that required the Israelites to separate from their foreign wives to maintain the purity of the Jewish faith and lineage. Pethahiah was among the Levites who had taken foreign wives and agreed to put them away as part of this reform. This event demonstrates the importance of religious and ethnic identity in the post-exilic Jewish community.
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.
Ezra (1 verse)