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44 All these had married foreign women, and they sent them away with their children.[a](A)

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  1. 10.44 1 Esdras 9.36; meaning of Heb uncertain

44 All these had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.[a]

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  1. Ezra 10:44 Or and they sent them away with their children

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

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20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman
    and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[a](A)

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  1. 5.20 Heb alien woman

20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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For the lips of a loose woman[a] drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil,(A)

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  1. 5.3 Heb strange woman

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;(A)

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

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16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(A)

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  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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

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So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the law.(A)

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Now let us make a covenant(A) before our God to send away(B) 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.

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Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

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