Ezra 10:19

and they give their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, a ram of the flock, for their guilt.

Young's Literal 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 there are found of the sons of the priests that have settled strange women: of the sons of Jeshua 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 5:15'When a person committeth a trespass, and hath sinned through ignorance against the holy things of Jehovah, then he hath brought in his guilt-offering to Jehovah, a ram, a perfect one, out of the flock, at thy valuation [in] silver — shekels by the shekel of the sanctuary — for a guilt-offering.

Leviticus 6:6'And his guilt-offering he bringeth in to Jehovah, a ram, a perfect one, out of the flock, at thy estimation, for a guilt-offering, unto the priest,

1 Chronicles 29:24and all the heads, and the mighty men, and also all the sons of king David have given a hand under Solomon the king;

Lamentations 5:6[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [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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