“Now 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.”
Therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law." Shecaniah proposes a radical solution: dissolution of the mixed marriages and removal of the foreign wives and their children from the community. The proposal to act "according to the law" frames this action within the framework of covenant obligation. This verse demonstrates the post-exilic conviction that maintaining covenant purity requires radical action and that the covenant community\'s boundaries must be enforced through the dissolution of marriages that violate purity requirements.
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