Ezra 10:19

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

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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 who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

20From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:15“If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.

Leviticus 6:6Then he must bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock.

1 Chronicles 29:24All the officials and mighty men, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.

Lamentations 5:6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get 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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