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

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

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

New King James Version
All these had taken pagan wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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

NASB 1995
All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

NASB 1977
All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Legacy Standard Bible
All these had taken up foreign women as wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Amplified Bible
All these had married foreign women, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
All of these took foreign wives, but there were some of the men who begot children.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
All these had taken strange wives, and had begotten sons of them.

Contemporary English Version
These men divorced their foreign wives, then sent them and their children away.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
All these men had foreign wives. They divorced them and sent them and their children away.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Literal Standard Version
all these have taken strange women, and there are of them women who adopt sons.

Majority Standard Bible
All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

New American Bible
All these had taken foreign wives; but they sent them away, both the women and their children.

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

New Revised Standard Version
All these had married foreign women, and they sent them away with their children.

New Heart English Bible
All these had taken foreign 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. 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.

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Context
Those Guilty of Intermarriage
43And from the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah. 44All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

Cross References
1 Kings 11:1
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh--women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

Ezra 10:3
So now let us 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.


Treasury of Scripture

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

strange wives

Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 5:3,20
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: …

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Ezra 10
1. Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages
6. Ezra assembles the people
9. The people repent, and promise amendment
15. The care to perform it
18. The names of them which had married strange wives














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.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
All
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

these [men]
אֵ֕לֶּה (’êl·leh)
Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

had married
נָשְׂא֖וּ (nā·śə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

foreign
נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת (nā·ḵə·rî·yō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 5237: Foreign, alien

women,
נָשִׁ֣ים (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

and [some] of them
מֵהֶ֣ם (mê·hem)
Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

had
וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ (way·yā·śî·mū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

children
בָּנִֽים׃ (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

by these wives.
נָשִׁ֔ים (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female


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