The People Swear to Put away their Foreign Wives. The narrative now proceeds in the third person.

Ezra 10:2. Shecaniah: a common name; not necessarily identical with the person of this name referred to in Ezra 10:26. yet now: i.e. nevertheless; the evil could be done away by making a covenant with God (see Ezra 10:3).

Ezra 10:3. to put away all the wives. them: it does not seem to have struck Ezra that a better and more humane way would have been to receive the wives and children into the pale of Judaism.

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