Esdras 10:3

3 Hagamos un pacto con nuestro Dios, comprometiéndonos a expulsar a todas estas mujeres y a sus hijos, conforme al consejo que nos has dado tú, y todos los que aman el mandamiento de Dios. ¡Que todo se haga de acuerdo con la ley!

Esdras 10:3 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 10:3

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God
Renew our covenant with him, and lay ourselves under fresh obligation by promise and oath, and unanimously agree

to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them;
he means all the strange wives, such marriages being unlawful; and such wives might the more easily be put away, since bills of divorce were in frequent use with the Jews, and the children of such also being illegitimate; and the rather they were to be put away, lest they should corrupt other children, or get into the affections of their fathers, which might lead on to receive their mothers again, and especially this was to be done as a punishment of their sin: though no doubt but a provision was to be made, and was made, for the maintenance both of wives and children:

according to the counsel of my Lord;
either of Ezra, whom he honours with this title, being a ruler under the king of Persia; or of the Lord God, according to his will declared in his words, which is his counsel:

and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God;
feared to break it, and dreaded the effect of such a breach; and who no doubt would follow the counsel of the Lord, and join in their advice to act according to the proposal made:

and let it be done according to the law;
as that directs in such cases.

Esdras 10:3 In-Context

1 Mientras Esdras oraba y hacía esta confesión llorando y postrándose delante del templo de Dios, a su alrededor se reunió una gran asamblea de hombres, mujeres y niños del pueblo de Israel. Toda la multitud lloraba amargamente.

2 Entonces uno de los descendientes de Elam, que se llamaba Secanías hijo de Jehiel, se dirigió a Esdras y le dijo: «Nosotros hemos sido infieles a nuestro Dios, pues tomamos por esposas a mujeres de los pueblos vecinos; pero todavía hay esperanza para Israel.

3 Hagamos un pacto con nuestro Dios, comprometiéndonos a expulsar a todas estas mujeres y a sus hijos, conforme al consejo que nos has dado tú, y todos los que aman el mandamiento de Dios. ¡Que todo se haga de acuerdo con la ley!

4 Levántate, pues esta es tu responsabilidad; nosotros te apoyamos. ¡Cobra ánimo y pon manos a la obra!»

5 Al oír esto, Esdras se levantó e hizo que los jefes de los sacerdotes, los levitas y todo el pueblo de Israel se comprometieran, bajo juramento, a cumplir con lo que habían dicho; y ellos lo juraron.