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.
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.
Note to put…: Heb. to bring forth
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- let us make.{Nichrath berith,} "let us cut a covenant:"
- Deuteronomy 29:12; Joshua 9:6; 2 Kings 11:17; 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 34:31, 32; Nehemiah 9:38; Nehemiah 10:29–39
- put away
- Heb. bring forth. according to the counsel.
- 2 Chronicles 30:12
- of those that
- Ezra 9:4; 2 Chronicles 34:21, 27; Psalm 119:59, 120; Isaiah 66:2; Ezekiel 9:4
- at the commandment
- Deuteronomy 7:2, 3; Joshua 23:12, 13
- let it
- Nehemiah 8:14; Nehemiah 13:1–3; Isaiah 8:20; 1 Corinthians 7:12, 13