Ezra 10:19

And they gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offering of a male sheep of the flock.

Bible in Basic English

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 who were married to strange women were these: 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 anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale of the holy place.

Leviticus 6:6\6:13\Let the fire be kept burning on the altar at all times; it is never to go out.

1 Chronicles 29:24And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.

Lamentations 5:6We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough 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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