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Green's Literal Translation

Ezra 10:19

And they gave their hands that they would put away their women. And being guilty they offered a ram of the flock for their sin.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Amorites;   Church;   Covenant;   Decision;   Hand;   Jebusites;   Minister, Christian;   Oath;   Offerings;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Dedication;   Offerings;   Trespass-Offerings;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joshua the son of jehozadak;   Malachi;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Hand;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Giants;   Hanani;   Jehonadab;   Joel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Hand;   Jeshua;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Addan;   Covenant;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abijah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ram;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, in the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esther, Apocryphal Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt;
Hebrew Names Version
They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.
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.
English Standard Version
They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.
New Century Version
(They all promised to divorce their wives, and each one brought a male sheep from the flock as a penalty offering.)
New English Translation
(They gave their word to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from 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.
New American Standard Bible
They pledged to send away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they gaue their hads, that they would put away their wiues, & they that had trespassed, gaue a ramme for their trespasse.
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.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
They promised that they would send their wives away; and since they were guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt.
Darby Translation
And they gave their hand to send away their wives; and they offered a ram of the flock, as trespass-offering for their guilt.
Easy-to-Read Version
All of them promised to divorce their wives. And then each one of them offered a ram from the flock for a guilt offering. They did that because of their guilt.
George Lamsa Translation
And they also consented that they would put away their wives; so they offered rams of the flock for their sins.
Good News Translation
They promised to divorce their wives, and they offered a ram as a sacrifice for their sins.
Lexham English Bible
They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they gaue their hades there vpon, that they wolde put awaye their wyues: & for their trespace offerynge to geue a rame for their trespace.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And they gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offering of a male sheep of the flock.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they gaue their handes that they woulde put away their wiues: and they that had trespassed, gaue a ramme for their trespasse.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And they gaue their hands, that they would put away their wiues: and being guiltie, they offered a ramme of the flocke for their trespasse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they pledged themselves to put away their wives, and offered a ram of the flock for a trespass-offering because of their trespass.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yauen her hondis, that thei schulden caste out her wyues, and offre for her trespas a ram of the scheep.
Update Bible 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.
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.
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 Living Translation
They vowed to divorce their wives, and they each acknowledged their guilt by offering a ram as a guilt offering.
New Life Bible
They promised to put away their wives, and because they were guilty, they gave a ram of the flock for their sin.
New Revised Standard
They pledged themselves to send away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer for their offence a ram of the flock.
Revised Standard Version
They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their offense.

Contextual Overview

15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel, and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah made a stand against this. And Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them. 16 And the sons of the exile did so. And Ezra the priest with men, heads of the fathers, according to the house of their fathers, and all of them by names, were separated. And they sat down inthe first day of the tenth month to examinethe matter. 17 And they finished with all the men who had dwelt with foreign women by the first day of the first month. 18 And among the sons of the priests, these were found who had dwelt with foreign women: From the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. 19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their women. And being guilty they offered a ram of the flock for their sin. 20 And from the sons of Immer were Hanani and Zebadiah. 21 And from the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah. 22 And from the sons of Pashur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah. 23 Also from the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (he was Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. 24 From the singers also were Eliashib; and from the gatekeepers, Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gave their hands: They bound themselves in the most solemn manner to do as the rest of the delinquents had done, and make and acknowledgment to God of their iniquity, by offering each a ram for a trespass offering. 2 Kings 10:15, 1 Chronicles 29:24, 2 Chronicles 30:8, *marg. Lamentations 5:6, Galatians 2:9

a ram: Leviticus 5:15, Leviticus 5:16, Leviticus 6:4, Leviticus 6:6

Reciprocal: Leviticus 4:13 - and are guilty Leviticus 9:3 - Take ye Leviticus 16:6 - for himself Malachi 2:12 - the master and the scholar 2 Corinthians 6:14 - unequally

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
And these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:8
And Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the land.
Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:15
And Canaan fathered his first-born Sidon, and Heth,
Genesis 10:17
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis 10:18
and the Arvadite and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
Genesis 10:21
And to Shem was born, even to him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
Genesis 10:24
And Arpachshad fathered Salah; and Salah fathered Eber.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 19-43. And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives,.... They proposed to do it, and actually did it:

and being guilty; of which they were fully convinced:

they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass; to make atonement for it, and thereby set an example to others to do the like. Aben Ezra observes, that we do not find that the trespass offering was a mulct to such who married strange wives, and conjectures, that it was the advice of the chief men to do it. From hence, to the end of Ezra 10:43, is a list of the men that had married strange wives, and put them away; those in Ezra 10:20, were priests; in Ezra 10:23, Levites, and those of them who were singers or porters; the rest were Israelites: and it is a very common distinction, in rabbinical writers, to distinguish the Jews into priests, Levites, and Israelites; of these we know no more than their names; some of the heads of the families may be observed in Ezra 2:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare with the list in Ezra 2:0.

Ezra 10:19

They gave their hands - i. e., “solemnly pledged themselves” (compare the marginal references).

Ezra 10:44

The guilty persons, it would seem, were 113 in number. They comprised 4 members of the high priest’s family, 13 other priests, 10 Levites, and 86 lay Israelites belonging to at least 10 distinct families. The fact noted in the second clause of the verse must have increased the difficulity of Ezra’s task.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 19. They gave their hands — They bound themselves in the most solemn manner to do as the rest of the delinquents had done; and they made all acknowledgment of their iniquity to God by offering each a ram for a trespass-offering.


 
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