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Ezra 10:19

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

-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.

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