Ezra 10:19

And they gave their hand to send away their wives; and they offered a ram of the flock, as trespass-offering for their guilt.

Darby Translation

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 that had taken foreign wives, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren: Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

20And of the children of Immer: Hanani, and Zebadiah.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:15If any one act unfaithfully and sin through inadvertence in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his trespass-offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the small cattle, according to thy valuation by shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering.

Leviticus 6:6And his trespass-offering shall he bring to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the small cattle according to thy valuation, as a trespass-offering, unto the priest.

1 Chronicles 29:24And all the princes, 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 Egypt, [and] to Asshur, 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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