Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

They pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their offense.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt;

International Standard Version

Pleading guilty, they promised to divorce their wives. Then they offered a ram from their flocks for their offense.

A Conservative Version

And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives. And being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.

American Standard Version

And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Amplified

They vowed to send away their [pagan] wives, and being guilty, they each offered a ram of the flock for their offense.

Bible in Basic English

And they gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offering of a male sheep of the flock.

Darby Translation

And they gave their hand to send away their wives; and they offered a ram of the flock, as trespass-offering for their guilt.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will give their hand to bring forth their wives; and being guilty, a ram of the flock for their guilt.

King James 2000

And they gave their promise that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{They pledged themselves} to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Modern King James verseion

And they gave their hands that they would put away their women. And being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their sin.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they gave their hands thereupon, that they would put away their wives: and for their trespass offering to give a ram for their trespass.

NET Bible

(They gave their word to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from the flock for their guilt.)

New Heart English Bible

They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

The Emphasized Bible

and they gave their hand, that they would put away their wives, - and, being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Youngs Literal Translation

and they give their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, a ram of the flock, for their guilt.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

אשׁם 
'ashem 
Usage: 3

איל 
'ayil 
Usage: 100

of the flock
צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Foreign Wives And Children Are Sent Away

18 Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers. 19 They pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their offense. 20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

Cross References

Leviticus 6:6

And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the LORDa ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering.

2 Kings 10:15

And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?" And Jehonadab answered, "It is." Jehu said,"If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.

Leviticus 5:15-16

"If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.

Leviticus 6:4

if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found

1 Chronicles 29:24

All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

Galatians 2:9

and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

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