The LORD will out off the man] He speaketh to the Priests and Levites, who had also sinned in these forain marriages, Ezr. 9. 1. &10. 18. Nehemiah 13:28. and this threatning seemeth to be directed to them who should not willingly submit themselves to the reformation of this fault, appointed by Ezra: Or to those who should after fall into the like. the master and the scholar] Or, him that waketh, and him that answereth. Or, him that watcheth, and him that singeth. He meaneth the porters and singers of the Temple. The sense is, that either by an accursed death, or by excommunication out of the Church, I will cause him and all his posteritie to be uncapable of having any such sacred office. See Nehemiah 13:28.