Ezra 10:3

Brenton⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Now then let us make a covenant with our God, to put away all the wives, and their offspring, as thou shalt advise:

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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; 2 Chronicles 34:32; 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; 2 Chronicles 34:27; Psalms 119:59; Psalms 119:120; Isaiah 66:2; Ezekiel 9:4
at the commandment.
Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 7:3; Joshua 23:12; Joshua 23:13
let it.
Nehemiah 8:14; Nehemiah 13:1-3; Isaiah 8:20Shechaniah's counsel, which he was then so clear in, will not hold now: such marriages, it is certain, are contrary to the will of God, and ought not to be made; but they are not null. Our rule under the gospel is {Quod fieri non debuit, factum valet,} "That which ought not to have been done must, when done, abide." See
1 Corinthians 7:12; 1 Corinthians 7:13