Ezra 10:17
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
19 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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
- KJV
- And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
- WEB
- They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
- ASV
- And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
- DARBY
- And they ended with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
- BLB
- And they finished with all the men who had caused to dwell foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
- ÅB
- og de ble ferdig med alle de menn som hadde tatt fremmede kvinner til hustruer, til den første dag i den første måned.
- OTB
- og innen den første dagen i den første måneden hadde de avsluttet behandlingen av alle mennene som hadde giftet seg med utenlandske kvinner.
- B1930
- og de blev ferdig med alle de menn som hadde tatt fremmede kvinner til hustruer, til den første dag i den første måned.