Ezra 10:19

And they pledged themselves to put away their wives, and offered a ram of the flock for a trespass offering because of their trespass.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 there were found some of the sons of the priests who had taken strange wives: of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

20And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:15The soul which shall be really unconscious, and shall sin unwillingly in any of the holy things of the Lord, shall even bring to the Lord for his transgression, a ram of the flock without blemish, valued according to shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for his transgression wherein he transgressed.

Leviticus 6:6And the fire shall always burn on the altar; it shall not be extinguished.

1 Chronicles 29:24The princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons of King David his father, were subject to him.

Lamentations 5:6Egypt gave the hand to us, 1 Assyria to their own satisfaction. 1

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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