Ezra 10:19

They vowed to send their wives away, and they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering 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

18Among the descendants of the priests, the following had married foreign women: from the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

20From the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:15“If any of you neglects unintentionally anything that the Lord has declared belong to him and are holy, you must bring your guilt offering to the Lord: a ram without defects from your herd or the equivalent value in silver shekels (according to the sanctuary shekel standard). It is a guilt offering.

Leviticus 6:6Then you must take to the priest your guilt offering for the Lord: a ram without defects of the appropriate value from the flock.

1 Chronicles 29:24All the officials and warriors, as well as all of King David's sons, gave a solemn promise of loyalty to King Solomon.

Lamentations 5:6We allied ourselves with Egypt and Assyria so we could have plenty of food.

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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