Ezra 10:19

So they determined to send their wives away. Since they were guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt.

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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 there were those who had lived with foreign women. Among the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers there were Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

20Among the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:15“If anyone sins and acts unfaithfully in regard to the things that belong to Yahweh, but did so unintentionally, then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh. This offering must be a ram without blemish from the flock; its value must be appraised in silver shekels—the shekel of the sanctuary—as a guilt offering.

Leviticus 6:6Then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock that is worth the current value, as a guilt offering to the priest.

1 Chronicles 29:24All the leaders, soldiers, and King David's sons gave allegiance to King Solomon.

Lamentations 5:6We have given ourselves to Egypt and to Assyria 1 to get enough food. 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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