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Ezra 10:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, let’s 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.

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Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel  gathered around me, because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles,  while I sat devastated until the evening offering.


In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement  in writing on a sealed document containing the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.


‘Go and enquire of the Lord for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that was found. For great is the Lord’s wrath that is poured out on us  because our ancestors have not kept the word of the Lord in order to do everything written in this book.’


so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which he is making with you today, so that you may enter into his oath


‘Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,’ the Lord said to him, ‘and put a mark on the foreheads  of the men who sigh and groan  over all the detestable practices committed in it.’


My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the  Lord’s declaration. I will look favourably on this kind of person: one who is humble,  submissive   in spirit, and trembles at my word.


Go to God’s instruction and testimony!  If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.


They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should dwell in shelters during the festival of the seventh month.


All of these  had married foreign women, and some of the wives had given birth to children.


because  your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before me, and you tore your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.


Also, the power of God was at work in Judah to unite them  to carry out the command of the king and his officials by the word of the Lord.


It is in my heart now to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel  so that his burning anger may turn away from us.


Then  Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people that they would be the Lord’s people  and another covenant between the king and the people.  ,


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.’


So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. On the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God,  trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.


Therefore, make a confession to the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the surrounding peoples and your foreign wives.’


Those whose seals were on the document were the governor Nehemiah  son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,





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