Ezra 10:19

Overview - Ezra 10
Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages.
Ezra assembles the people.
The people repent, and promise amendment.
15 The care to perform it.
18 The names of them which had married strange wives.
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Ezra 10:19  (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.
 


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