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Old Testament

Chelal was one of the Israelites who had married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra.

Chelal was one of the men from the family of Pahath-moab who had married a foreign woman during the exile, listed in Ezra 10:30 among those who agreed to Ezra's reform and sent away their foreign wives. His compliance with this difficult measure illustrates the sacrificial obedience that Ezra demanded of the returning community as it sought to maintain its covenantal identity in the early Second Temple period.