Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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Gill's Exposition
And before this,.... Before the above law was read, and observed and acted upon:
Eliashib the priest; whom some take to be a common priest; so Bishop Usher (a); but he seems rather to be the high…
Barnes' Notes
A separation like that made by Ezra, some 20 years previously Ezra 10:15-44, seems to be intended. The pagan wives were divorced and sent back, with their offspring, to their own countries.
Adam Clarke
They separated from Israel all the mixed multitude - They excluded all strange women, and all persons, young and old, who had been born of these illegal connections.
It was the honour of Israel, and the greatest preservation of their holiness, that they were a peculiar people, and were so to keep themselves, and not to mingle with the nations, nor suffer any of…
Cambridge Bible
Now R.V. And. The A.V. begins a new paragraph with this verse; which however continues the preceding verses, giving the result of the action taken.
they separated -They," impersonal, but evidently the…
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