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The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 16. So. Cajetan improperly concludes, that the sentence was not put in execution; because Nehemias (Calmet. 13:23.) complains of such marriages. Calmet.—But the guilty might have resumed their women. Bible.—Went. Hebrew “were separated.” Bible.—By making a small change, we may translate, with 3 Esd. “and Esdras separated or chose the men.” Josephus seems generally to have followed the Greek of 3 Esd. The Syriac says there were 20 judges.
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