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and <i>being</i> guilty, <i>they offered</i> a ram of the flock for their trespass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezra/10.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And they gave their promise that they would put away their wives; and <i>being</i> guilty, <i>they presented</i> a ram of the flock as their trespass offering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezra/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />They pledged to send away their wives, and being guilty, <i>they offered</i> a ram of the flock for their guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezra/10.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />They pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their offense.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezra/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And they pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, <i>they offered</i> a ram of the flock for their offense.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezra/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />They gave their hand <i>in pledge</i> to put away their wives, and being guilty, <i>they offered</i> a ram of the flock for their guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezra/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />They vowed to send away their [pagan] wives, and being guilty, <i>they each offered</i> a ram of the flock for their offense.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezra/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezra/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezra/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezra/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezra/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They shook hands as a pledge that they would get rid of their wives. They sacrificed a ram from their flock as an offering for guilt because they were guilty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezra/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They promised to divorce their wives, and they offered a ram as a sacrifice for their sins. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezra/10.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Pleading guilty, they promised to divorce their wives. Then they offered a ram from their flocks for their offense.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezra/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezra/10.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />(They gave their word to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from the flock for their guilt.) <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezra/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezra/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezra/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezra/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and they give their hand to send out their wives, and being guilty, a ram of the flock for their guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezra/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and they give their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, a ram of the flock, for their guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezra/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And they will give their hand to bring forth their wives; and being guilty, a ram of the flock for their guilt.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezra/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer for their offence a ram of the flock. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezra/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And they swore with their hands that they would cast aside their wives, and that they would offer for their offense a ram from among the sheep.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezra/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They pledged themselves to dismiss their wives, and as a guilt offering for their guilt they gave a ram from the flock.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezra/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />They pledged themselves to send away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezra/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And they also consented that they would put away their wives; so they offered rams of the flock for their sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezra/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And they were persuaded also that they would send away their wives, and they offered rams of sheep for their sins.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezra/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezra/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And they pledged themselves to put away their wives, and <i>offered</i> a ram of the flock for a trespass-offering because of their trespass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezra/10-19.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sh6ec6iQe9M?start=2748" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezra/10.htm">Those Guilty of Intermarriage</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18</span>Among 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. <span class="reftext">19</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: way·yit·tə·nū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">They pledged</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)"></a> <a href="/hebrew/802.htm" title="802: nə·šê·hem (N-fpc:: 3mp) -- Woman, wife, female. Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym; a woman.">to send their wives</a> <a href="/hebrew/3318.htm" title="3318: lə·hō·w·ṣî (Prep-l:: V-Hifil-Inf) -- A primitive root; to go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.">away,</a> <a href="/hebrew/818.htm" title="818: wa·’ă·šê·mîm (Conj-w:: Adj-mp) -- Guilty. From 'asham; guilty; hence, presenting a sin- offering.">and for their guilt</a> <a href="/hebrew/352.htm" title="352: ’êl- (N-msc) -- From the same as 'uwl; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief; also a ram; a pilaster; an oak or other strong tree.">they presented a ram</a> <a href="/hebrew/6629.htm" title="6629: ṣōn (N-cs) -- Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock. Or tsaown; from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock; also figuratively.">from the flock</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">as</a> <a href="/hebrew/819.htm" title="819: ’aš·mā·ṯām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Wrongdoing, guiltiness. Feminine of 'asham; guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of a sin-offering.">a guilt offering.</a> </span><span class="reftext">20</span>From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-2.htm">Nehemiah 9:2</a></span><br />Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/26-40.htm">Leviticus 26:40-42</a></span><br />But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— / and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, / then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-15.htm">2 Chronicles 30:15</a></span><br />And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/13-23.htm">Nehemiah 13:23-27</a></span><br />In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. / Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah. / I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves! ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/2-11.htm">Malachi 2:11-12</a></span><br />Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god. / As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">2 Corinthians 6:14-18</a></span><br />Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a></span><br />Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-10.htm">1 Corinthians 7:10-16</a></span><br />To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. / But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. / To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/11-1.htm">1 Kings 11:1-4</a></span><br />King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. / He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-32.htm">Matthew 5:32</a></span><br />But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1-4</a></span><br />If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house. / If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife, / and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1-2</a></span><br />It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. / And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/34-15.htm">Exodus 34:15-16</a></span><br />Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. / And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/7-2.htm">Romans 7:2-3</a></span><br />For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. / So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joshua/23-12.htm">Joshua 23:12-13</a></span><br />For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/10-15.htm">2 Kings 10:15</a></b></br> And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab <i>coming</i> to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart <i>is</i> with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give <i>me</i> thine hand. And he gave <i>him</i> his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_chronicles/29-24.htm">1 Chronicles 29:24</a></b></br> And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/30-8.htm">2 Chronicles 30:8</a></b></br> Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers <i>were, but</i> yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.</p><p class="hdg">a ram</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/5-15.htm">Leviticus 5:15,16</a></b></br> If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/6-4.htm">Leviticus 6:4,6</a></b></br> Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/35-7.htm">Flock</a> <a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Guilt</a> <a href="/ezra/9-7.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/ezra/9-7.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezra/10-4.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/ezra/8-35.htm">Male</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-31.htm">Offense</a> <a href="/ezra/8-35.htm">Offered</a> <a href="/ezra/9-5.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/34-32.htm">Pledge</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-24.htm">Pledged</a> <a href="/ezra/3-5.htm">Presented</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/2-27.htm">Ram</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-7.htm">Sheep</a> <a href="/ezra/10-13.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/ezra/10-9.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Trespass</a> <a href="/ezra/10-18.htm">Wives</a> <a href="/ezra/10-12.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/21-11.htm">Flock</a> <a href="/nehemiah/4-5.htm">Guilt</a> <a href="/job/9-20.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/nehemiah/1-10.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-18.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/nehemiah/7-67.htm">Male</a> <a href="/job/10-14.htm">Offense</a> <a href="/nehemiah/11-2.htm">Offered</a> <a href="/nehemiah/10-33.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-3.htm">Pledge</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-21.htm">Pledged</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-29.htm">Presented</a> <a href="/job/32-2.htm">Ram</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-1.htm">Sheep</a> <a href="/nehemiah/4-5.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/nehemiah/4-2.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/nehemiah/1-8.htm">Trespass</a> <a href="/ezra/10-44.htm">Wives</a> <a href="/nehemiah/1-8.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Ezra 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-1.htm">Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-6.htm">Ezra assembles the people</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-9.htm">The people repent, and promise amendment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-15.htm">The care to perform it</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-18.htm">The names of them which had married strange wives</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The context is the post-exilic period when Ezra led a reform to restore the community's faithfulness to the covenant. The sending away of foreign wives was a drastic measure to ensure the purity of the Israelite community, aligning with <a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a>, which warns against intermarriage with pagan nations due to the risk of idolatry. This action reflects a deep repentance and desire to return to God's commands.<p><b>and for their guilt</b><br>The acknowledgment of guilt indicates a recognition of sin and a need for atonement. In the Old Testament, guilt often required a sacrificial offering to restore the relationship with God. This reflects the broader biblical theme of sin, repentance, and atonement, which is central to the covenant relationship between God and His people. The community's collective guilt highlights the seriousness of their transgression and the need for communal repentance.<p><b>they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering</b><br>The offering of a ram as a guilt offering is rooted in Levitical law, specifically <a href="/leviticus/5-14.htm">Leviticus 5:14-19</a>, which outlines the requirements for a guilt offering. This type of offering was meant to atone for unintentional sins or sins requiring restitution. The choice of a ram signifies the value and seriousness of the offering, as rams were considered valuable animals. This act of sacrifice prefigures the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who is often typified as the Lamb of God, providing the final atonement for sin. The offering underscores the necessity of blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins, a theme that runs throughout the Bible and finds its fulfillment in the New Testament.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezra.htm">Ezra</a></b><br>A scribe and priest who led the second group of exiles back to Jerusalem. He was instrumental in the spiritual and religious reform of the Jewish community.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelite_men.htm">Israelite Men</a></b><br>The men who had married foreign women, which was against the Mosaic Law. They are the ones making the pledge in this verse.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/f/foreign_wives.htm">Foreign Wives</a></b><br>The non-Israelite women whom the Israelite men had married, leading to the need for repentance and reform.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The central place of worship and the location where these events and reforms were taking place.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/guilt_offering.htm">Guilt Offering</a></b><br>A specific type of sacrifice in the Levitical law meant to atone for certain sins, indicating the seriousness of their transgression.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_obedience.htm">Repentance and Obedience</a></b><br>The Israelite men recognized their sin and took concrete steps to rectify it. True repentance involves both acknowledgment of sin and action to correct it.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_purity.htm">The Importance of Purity</a></b><br>The command to send away foreign wives was about maintaining spiritual purity and obedience to God's commands. This teaches us the importance of aligning our lives with God's standards.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/sacrificial_atonement.htm">Sacrificial Atonement</a></b><br>The offering of a ram as a guilt offering underscores the necessity of atonement for sin. It points to the ultimate sacrifice of Christ, who atones for our sins.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_accountability.htm">Community Accountability</a></b><br>The community's involvement in this process highlights the role of accountability in spiritual growth and reform.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/covenant_faithfulness.htm">Covenant Faithfulness</a></b><br>The Israelites' actions were a return to covenant faithfulness, reminding us of the importance of keeping our commitments to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezra_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezra 10</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/should_ezra_abandon_foreign_families.htm">Should Ezra have ordered abandoning foreign wives and children?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_ezra_10_10_align_with_anti-divorce.htm">Ezra 10:10 - How is this command to divorce reconcileable with other biblical teachings that appear to disapprove of divorce?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_separate_if_some_converted.htm">Ezra 10:44 - How can a just God require separating from wives and children if some may have converted to the faith?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_endorse_breaking_families.htm">Ezra 10:3 - Why does God seemingly endorse the breaking up of families by demanding the men send away their foreign wives and children?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezra/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 19.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They gave their hands that they would put away their wives</span>. It is not clear whether this is intended to be said of Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah only, or of the entire body of persons found guilty of having married strange wives. Most probably the court made out the divorces in the generality of cases, but were content to take a solemn pledge from members of the high priest's family. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezra/10-19.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">They pledged</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yit·tə·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> </span><span class="str2">To give, put, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to send their wives</span><br /><span class="heb">נְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(nə·šê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_802.htm">Strong's 802: </a> </span><span class="str2">Woman, wife, female</span><br /><br /><span class="word">away,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְהוֹצִ֣יא</span> <span class="translit">(lə·hō·w·ṣî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3318.htm">Strong's 3318: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go, bring, out, direct and proxim</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and for their guilt</span><br /><span class="heb">וַאֲשֵׁמִ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(wa·’ă·šê·mîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_818.htm">Strong's 818: </a> </span><span class="str2">Guilty, presenting a, sin-offering</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[they presented] a ram</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵֽיל־</span> <span class="translit">(’êl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_352.htm">Strong's 352: </a> </span><span class="str2">Strength, strong, a chief, a ram, a pilaster, an oak, strong tree</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from the flock</span><br /><span class="heb">צֹ֖אן</span> <span class="translit">(ṣōn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6629.htm">Strong's 6629: </a> </span><span class="str2">Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a guilt offering.</span><br /><span class="heb">אַשְׁמָתָֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(’aš·mā·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_819.htm">Strong's 819: </a> </span><span class="str2">Guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of a, sin-offering</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezra/10-19.htm">Ezra 10:19 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezra/10-19.htm">OT History: Ezra 10:19 They gave their hand that they would (Ezr. 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