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Why don't convert first? [part3/5] https://www.esv.org/Ezra10:1–17 Week 24: 09/06/2023. Fri In this 3rd part, we are reminded that the idea of sending away foreign wives was a ground-up idea (10:2–3) initially and subsequently endorsed by Ezra (10:5). While

Why don't convert first? [part2/5] https://www.esv.org/Ezra10:1–17 Week 24: 08/06/2023. Thu Modern readers would ask (1) Isn't sending away wives and children heartless? (2) Why don't they ask foreign wives to convert first? God had made clear in Exod. 34:15—16

Why don't convert first? [part1/5] https://www.esv.org/Ezra10:1–17 Week 24: 07/06/2023. Wed Modern readers would ask (1) Isn't sending away wives and children heartless? (2) Why don't they ask foreign wives to convert first? For this first part, we focus on the competing

God is more important than other things https://www.esv.org/Ezra10:1–17 Week 24: 06/06/2023. Tue At a time when nationality (being an Israelite) was a defining characteristic of God's people, the marrying of foreign women in Ezra's time (whatever the economic benefits or social needs