Ezra 10:44
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New International Version (©2011)
All these had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Each of these men had a pagan wife, and some even had children by these wives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
All of these had married foreign women, and some of the wives had given birth to children.

International Standard Version (©2012)
All of these had married foreign wives, and some of them had children by them.

NET Bible (©2006)
All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All of these men had married foreign women. Some of these women had given birth to children.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
All these had taken foreign wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

American King James Version
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

American Standard Version
All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them women that had borne children.

Darby Bible Translation
All these had taken foreign wives; and there were among them wives who had had children.

English Revised Version
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Webster's Bible Translation
All these had taken foreign wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

World English Bible
All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Young's Literal Translation
all these have taken strange women, and there are of them women -- who adopt sons.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:15-44 The best reformers can but do their endeavour; when the Redeemer himself shall come to Zion, he shall effectually turn away ungodliness from Jacob. And when sin is repented of and forsaken, God will forgive it; but the blood of Christ, our Sin-offering, is the only atonement which takes away our guilt. No seeming repentance or amendment will benefit those who reject Him, for self-dependence proves them still unhumbled. All the names written in the book of life, are those of penitent sinners, not of self-righteous persons, who think they have no need of repentance.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 44. - And some of them had wives by whom they had children. Rather, "And there were some among the wives who had given birth to children." The fact is implied above in the advice of Shechaniah (ver. 3), but is here alone distinctly asserted. No doubt it was more difficult to arrange the terms of the divorce where the marriage had been fruitful.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

All these had taken strange wives,.... In all about one hundred and thirteen:

and some of them had wives by whom they had children; and yet they put them away, which made it the more difficult for them to do; and those that had none, it is thought to be a mark of God's displeasure at such marriages. No mention being made of the children being put away, as Shechaniah proposed, Ezra 10:3, it may be concluded they were not, but were taken care of, to be educated in the true religion, and entered proselytes at a proper time; and the rather, as Ezra gave no orders about their putting away, Ezra 10:11.

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Those Guilty of Intermarriage
…42Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. 43Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah. 44All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

1 Kings 11:1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter--Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
Ezra 10:3 Now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all these women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.