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Ezra 10:44

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All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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  1. Ezra 10:3Rank 1 from verse 44
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    3Now 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.

  2. Proverbs 2:16Rank 2 from verse 44
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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

  3. Proverbs 5:20Rank 3 from verse 44
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    20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  4. Proverbs 5:3Rank 4 from verse 44
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    3¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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Ezra 10:44

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taken

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1. Received, accepted, or chosen. 2. Seized or captured. 3. Carried or laid hold of.

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strange

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Foreign; belonging to another country. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity.

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whom

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The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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43Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.

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

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