All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAll these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.
all these have taken strange women, and there are of them women--who adopt sons.
All these had taken foreign wives; and there were among them wives who had had children.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzra — The return in two waves — Zerubbabel's altar and temple (538 BC) and Ezra's reforming arrival (458 BC). A book about rebuilding — the temple, the Torah-teaching community, and the covenant boundary.
- Author
- Ezra (traditional); the book uses first-person narrative in chs. 7–10
- Date
- Events 538–458 BC; compilation c. mid-5th century BC