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Ezra 10:11

Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Church;   Decision;   Divorce;   Ezra;   Fellowship;   Government;   Thompson Chain Reference - Association-Separation;   Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Confession of Sin;   Israel;   Palliation-Denunciation;   Rebuke;   Separation;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Divorce;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Confession;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Will of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Giants;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   People of the Land;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Addan;   Essenes;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   People;   Pharisees;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eliezer;   People;   Pleasure;   Strange Wife;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hellenism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, make a confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the surrounding peoples and your foreign wives.”
Hebrew Names Version
Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
King James Version
Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
English Standard Version
Now then make confession to the Lord , the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."
New Century Version
Now, confess it to the Lord , the God of your ancestors. Do his will and separate yourselves from the people living around you and from your non-Jewish wives."
New English Translation
Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives."
Amplified Bible
"So now, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers and do His will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from [your] foreign wives."
New American Standard Bible
"Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."
World English Bible
Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Now therefore giue praise vnto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will, and separate your selues from the people of the land, and from the strange wiues.
Legacy Standard Bible
So now, make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."
Contemporary English Version
Now you must confess your sins to the Lord God of your ancestors and obey him. Divorce your foreign wives and don't have anything to do with the rest of the foreigners who live around here.
Complete Jewish Bible
Now, therefore, make confession to Adonai , the God of your ancestors; and do what will please him by separating yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women."
Darby Translation
And now make confession to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign wives.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now you must confess your sins to the Lord , the God of your ancestors. You must obey his command. Separate yourselves from the people living around you and from your foreign wives."
George Lamsa Translation
Now therefore make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the alien wives.
Good News Translation
Now then, confess your sins to the Lord , the God of your ancestors, and do what pleases him. Separate yourselves from the foreigners living in our land and get rid of your foreign wives."
Lexham English Bible
Now make a confession to Yahweh the God of your ancestors and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women."
Literal Translation
And now make confession to Jehovah God of your fathers and do His will. And separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
confesse now therfore vnto ye LORDE God of youre fathers, & do his pleasure, and separate youre selues from the people of the londe, & from ye straunge wyues.
American Standard Version
Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
Bible in Basic English
So now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and make yourselves separate from the peoples of the land and from the strange women.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Confesse now therfore vnto the Lord God of our fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate your selues from the people of the lande, and from the straunge wyues.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now therefore make confession unto the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.'
King James Version (1611)
Now therefore make confession vnto the Lord God of your fathers, and doe his pleasure: and separate your selues from the people of the land, and from the strange wiues.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Now therefore give praise to the Lord God of our fathers, and do that which is pleasing in his sight: and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the strange wives.
English Revised Version
Now therefore make confession unto the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now yyue ye knowlechyng to the Lord God of oure fadris, and do ye his pleasaunce, and be ye departid fro the puplis of the lond, and fro `wyues aliens.
Update Bible Version
Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the foreign wives.
New King James Version
Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives."
New Living Translation
So now confess your sin to the Lord , the God of your ancestors, and do what he demands. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from these pagan women."
New Life Bible
So now tell your sins to the Lord God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from the strange wives."
New Revised Standard
Now make confession to the Lord the God of your ancestors, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, make confession unto Yahweh God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, - and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.
Revised Standard Version
Now then make confession to the LORD the God of your fathers, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."
Young's Literal Translation
and, now, make confession to Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do His good pleasure, and be separated from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."

Contextual Overview

6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles. 7And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem. 8Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles. 9So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain. 10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel. 11Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives."12And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: "Truly we will do as you say! 13But there are many people here, and it is the rainy season. We are not able to stay out in the open. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter. 14Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

make confession: Leviticus 26:40-42, Joshua 7:19, Psalms 32:5, Proverbs 28:13, Jeremiah 3:13, 1 John 1:7-9

do his: Isaiah 1:16-18, Isaiah 56:4, Romans 12:2, Colossians 1:10, Hebrews 13:21

separate: Ezra 9:1, Nehemiah 13:3, 2 Corinthians 6:17

and from the: Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4, 1 Corinthians 2:12-14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:5 - confess 2 Chronicles 30:22 - and making Nehemiah 1:6 - confess Nehemiah 9:2 - the seed Nehemiah 10:28 - all they 1 Corinthians 7:12 - If

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
Genesis 10:10
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Numbers 24:22
Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive."
Numbers 24:24
Ships will come from the coast of Kittim; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever."
2 Kings 19:36
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
Ezra 4:2
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, "Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here."
Psalms 83:8
Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah
Isaiah 37:37
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned home to Nineveh and stayed there.
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, Canneh, and Eden, and the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
Ezekiel 32:22
Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore make confession to the Lord God of your fathers,.... Of their sin, and express their detestation of it, and repentance for it:

and do his pleasure; obey his will, and particularly in this case:

and separate yourselves from the people of the land; the Canaanites, c. have no fellowship with them, make no covenants, contracts, and alliances with them for the future

and from the strange wives; they had taken; put them away.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. Make confession — Acknowledge your sins before God, with deep compunction of heart, and the fullest resolution to forsake them.


 
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