Old Testament -> Ezra
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Ezra 9:3
Ezra for Skeptics
There’s not much in this little book to interest skeptics (or anyone else as far as I can tell). But here are a few things worth noting.
• Check out the contradictions between the boring lists given in Ezra 2 and Neh.7.
• The Israelites offend God by “taking” foreign wives and thereby corrupting the “holy seed.” 9:2
• When Ezra hears of the intermarriages he tears his clothes, plucks out his hair and beard, and sits down astonished. 9:3
• Ezra tells the men that they must abandon their “strange” wives and children if they want to avoid God’s wrath. 10:2-3, 10-12
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