Ezra 10:3 “So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the fore…”

Ezra 10:3

So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

World English Bible

Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

American Standard Version

Geneva Bible 1599

Now therfore let vs make a couenant with our God, to put away all the wiues (and such as are borne of them) according to the counsell of the Lord, and of those that feare the commandements of our God, and let it be done according to the Lawe.

Darby Translation

And now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of [my] lord, and of those that tremble at the commandments of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Young's Literal Translation

and now, let us make a covenant with our God, to cause all the women to go out, and that which is born of them, by the counsel of the Lord, and of those trembling at the command of our God, and according to law it is done;

Bible in Basic English

Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.

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Cross references

“let us make”

Deuteronomy 29:12 Nehemiah 9:38 Joshua 9:6 2 Kings 11:17 2 Chronicles 29:10 Nehemiah 10:29–39

Deuteronomy 29:12 · BSB

so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

Nehemiah 9:38 · BSB

In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”

Joshua 9:6 · BSB

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”

2 Kings 11:17 · BSB

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.

2 Chronicles 29:10 · BSB

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.

Nehemiah 10:29–39 · BSB

hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our…

“according to the counsel”

2 Chronicles 30:12

2 Chronicles 30:12 · BSB

Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.

“of those that”

Ezra 9:4 Psalm 119:120 2 Chronicles 34:21 Psalm 119:59 2 Chronicles 34:27 Isaiah 66:2

Ezra 9:4 · BSB

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat there in horror until the evening offering.

Psalm 119:120 · BSB

My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.

2 Chronicles 34:21 · BSB

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers h…

Psalm 119:59 · BSB

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

2 Chronicles 34:27 · BSB

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept be…

Isaiah 66:2 · BSB

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

“at the commandment”

Deuteronomy 7:2 Deuteronomy 7:3 Joshua 23:12 Joshua 23:13

Deuteronomy 7:2 · BSB

and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Deuteronomy 7:3 · BSB

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Joshua 23:12 · BSB

For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

Joshua 23:13 · BSB

know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this go…

“let it”

Nehemiah 8:14 Nehemiah 13:1–3 Isaiah 8:20 1 Corinthians 7:12 1 Corinthians 7:13

Nehemiah 8:14 · BSB

And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,

Nehemiah 13:1–3 · BSB

At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

Isaiah 8:20 · BSB

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

1 Corinthians 7:12 · BSB

To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

1 Corinthians 7:13 · BSB

And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.

Also

Ezra 10:44

Ezra 10:44 · BSB

All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

4Get up, for this matter is your responsibility, and we will support you. Be strong and take action!”

Read Ezra 10