Bible verse
They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
Ezra 10:19 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ezra 10.
15 (Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)
16 So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,
17 and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
18 Among 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.
19 They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
20 From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
21 From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
22 From the descendants of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
23 Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
KJV
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
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.
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