Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version (They all gave their hands in pledge to put away their wives, and for their guilt they each presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.) New Living Translation They vowed to divorce their wives, and they each acknowledged their guilt by offering a ram as a guilt offering. English Standard Version They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt. Berean Standard Bible They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering. King James Bible 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. New King James Version And they gave their promise that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock as their trespass offering. New American Standard Bible They pledged to send away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. NASB 1995 They pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their offense. NASB 1977 And they pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their offense. Legacy Standard Bible They gave their hand in pledge to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. Amplified Bible They vowed to send away their [pagan] wives, and being guilty, they each offered a ram of the flock for their offense. Christian Standard Bible They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt; Holman Christian Standard Bible They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt; American Standard Version 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. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation 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. Good News Translation They promised to divorce their wives, and they offered a ram as a sacrifice for their sins. International Standard Version Pleading guilty, they promised to divorce their wives. Then they offered a ram from their flocks for their offense. Majority Standard Bible They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering. NET Bible (They gave their word to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from the flock for their guilt.) New Heart English Bible They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand they give their hand to send out their wives, and being guilty, a ram of the flock for their guilt. Young's Literal Translation and they give their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, a ram of the flock, for their guilt. Smith's Literal Translation And they will give their hand to bring forth their wives; and being guilty, a ram of the flock for their guilt. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer for their offence a ram of the flock. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. New American Bible They pledged themselves to dismiss their wives, and as a guilt offering for their guilt they gave a ram from the flock. New Revised Standard Version They pledged themselves to send away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd they also consented that they would put away their wives; so they offered rams of the flock for their sins. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And they were persuaded also that they would send away their wives, and they offered rams of sheep for their sins. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt. Brenton Septuagint Translation And they pledged themselves to put away their wives, and offered a ram of the flock for a trespass-offering because of their trespass. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Those Guilty of Intermarriage18Among 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. 19They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering. 20From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.… Cross References Nehemiah 9:2 Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. Leviticus 26:40-42 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. 2 Chronicles 30:15 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. Nehemiah 13:23-27 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! ... Malachi 2:11-12 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. 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 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.” ... Deuteronomy 7:3-4 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. 1 Corinthians 7:10-16 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. ... 1 Kings 11:1-4 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. ... Matthew 5:32 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. Deuteronomy 24:1-4 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, ... 1 Corinthians 5:1-2 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? Exodus 34:15-16 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. Romans 7:2-3 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. Joshua 23:12-13 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. Treasury of Scripture 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. 2 Kings 10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. 1 Chronicles 29:24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king. 2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but 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. a ram Leviticus 5:15,16 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: … Leviticus 6:4,6 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, … Jump to Previous Flock Guilt Guilty Hand Hands Male Offense Offered Offering Pledge Pledged Presented Ram Sheep Sin Themselves Trespass Wives WordJump to Next Flock Guilt Guilty Hand Hands Male Offense Offered Offering Pledge Pledged Presented Ram Sheep Sin Themselves Trespass Wives WordEzra 10 1. Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages6. Ezra assembles the people 9. The people repent, and promise amendment 15. The care to perform it 18. The names of them which had married strange wives They pledged to send their wives away This phrase indicates a solemn commitment made by the men of Israel to rectify their disobedience to God's law. The Hebrew root for "pledged" (שָׁבַע, shava) implies a binding oath or promise, often made before God, signifying the seriousness of their repentance. Historically, this action was necessary to restore the purity of the Israelite community, as intermarriage with foreign women had led to idolatry and a departure from God's commandments. The decision to "send their wives away" was not taken lightly, reflecting a deep desire to return to covenant faithfulness, even at great personal cost. and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew They pledgedוַיִּתְּנ֥וּ (way·yit·tə·nū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5414: To give, put, set to send their wives נְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם (nə·šê·hem) Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female away, לְהוֹצִ֣יא (lə·hō·w·ṣî) Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim and for their guilt וַאֲשֵׁמִ֥ים (wa·’ă·šê·mîm) Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 818: Guilty, presenting a, sin-offering [they presented] a ram אֵֽיל־ (’êl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 352: Strength, strong, a chief, a ram, a pilaster, an oak, strong tree from the flock צֹ֖אן (ṣōn) Noun - common singular Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock as עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against a guilt offering. אַשְׁמָתָֽם׃ (’aš·mā·ṯām) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 819: Guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of a, sin-offering Links Ezra 10:19 NIVEzra 10:19 NLT Ezra 10:19 ESV Ezra 10:19 NASB Ezra 10:19 KJV Ezra 10:19 BibleApps.com Ezra 10:19 Biblia Paralela Ezra 10:19 Chinese Bible Ezra 10:19 French Bible Ezra 10:19 Catholic Bible OT History: Ezra 10:19 They gave their hand that they would (Ezr. 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