Ezra 10:5 BSB — MannaFest

Ezra 10:5

So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they sware.

KJV

Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.

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Commentary

1 voice

Bede

Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah (735)

And Ezra rose before the house of God, etc. Eliasib was the high priest of that time, since after Jesus the son of Jozadak, his son Joachim, and after him his son Eliasib, carried out the rank of high priest, as both the subsequent sections …

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּ֣קָם	vai.Ya.kom	and he arose	H6965 →
עֶזְרָ֡א	'ez.Ra'	Ezra	H5830 →
וַיַּשְׁבַּ֣ע	vai.yash.Ba'	and he made to swear an oath	H7650 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שָׂרֵי֩	sa.Rei	[the] leaders of	H8269 →
הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים	ha.ko.ha.Nim	the priests	H3548 →
הַלְוִיִּ֜ם	hal.vi.Yim	the Levites	H3881 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
לַעֲשׂ֛וֹת	la.'a.Sot	to do	H6213 →
כַּדָּבָ֥ר	ka.da.Var	according to the manner	H1697 →
הַזֶּ֖ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
וַיִּשָּׁבֵֽעוּ׃	vai.yi.sha.Ve.'u	and they swore [the] oath	H7650 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezra 10:3
So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 7:2–3
  and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- Ezra 9:4
  Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat there in horror until the evening offering.
- Joshua 23:12–13
  For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
- Psalms 119:120
  My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
Through
Nehemiah 10:29
hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes…
leads to
- Ezekiel 36:27
  And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
- Psalms 119:106
  I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.
- John 15:14
  You are My friends if you do what I command you.
Through
Nehemiah 13:25
I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 7:3
  Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,