Ezra 10:19

And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives. And being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.

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In The King James Version

And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.

In Context

18And among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women, [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

20And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:15If a soul commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly in the holy things of LORD, then he shall bring his trespass-offering to LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation in silver by shekels, after the s

Leviticus 6:6And he shall bring his trespass-offering to LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, to the priest.

1 Chronicles 29:24And all the rulers, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves to Solomon the king.

Lamentations 5:6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:16-44

15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. 16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. 18… Read the whole commentary →

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