Ezra 10:44
Good News Translation
All these men had foreign wives. They divorced them and sent them and their children away.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

strange wives

Proverbs 2:16 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

Proverbs 5:3,20 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. . . .

120 years, and, according to Josephus, was buried in Jerusalem; but the Jews believe he died in Persia, in a second journey to Artaxerxes, where his tomb is shown in the city of Zamusa. Though not styled a prophet, he wrote under the Divine Spirit; and the canonical authority of his book has never been disputed. It is written with all the spirit and fidelity that could be displayed by a writer of contemporary times; and those parts which chiefly consist of letters, decrees, etc., are written in Chaldee, because it seemed more suitable to the fidelity of a sacred historian to give these official documents, as they may be termed, in the original language, especially as the people, recently returned from the captivity, were familiar, and perhaps more conversant with the Chaldee, than with the Hebrew.

Context
Those Guilty of Intermarriage
43Of the sons of Nebo, Jehiel, Mathathias, Zabad, Zabina, Jeddu, and Joel, and Banaia. 44All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them women that had borne children.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1
And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

Ezra 10:3
Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord, and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be done according to the law.

Ezra 10:43
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