Text: Ezra 10:10-11
OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 5:15
Subject: Reparation offering and mass divorce (B+C) (* see assembly and devoting networks)
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Ezra 10:10-11 addresses the community's intermarriage as unfaithfulness (מַעַל, ma'al), the same term used in Leviticus 5:15 for "unfaithfulness regarding the LORD's holy things" requiring a guilt offering (אָשָׁם, asham). By framing intermarriage with the same term Leviticus uses for sacrilege against holy objects, Ezra characterizes the mixed marriages as trespass against YHWH's holiness, not merely a social problem. The required response parallels Leviticus: just as sacrilege against holy things demands restitution and an asham offering, so the community's trespass against the holy seed (זֶרַע הַקֹּדֶשׁ, zera haqqodesh) demands corporate repentance and separation.
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Text: Leviticus 5:15
OT Text Referred to: Ezra 10:10-11
Subject: guilt offering for trespass of intermarriage
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Leviticus 5:15 prescribes the guilt offering (אָשָׁם, asham) for one who "commits a trespass (מַעַל, ma'al) and sins unintentionally against the LORD's holy things." Ezra 10:10 uses the same trespass vocabulary: "You have been unfaithful (מְעַלְתֶּם, me'altem) and have married foreign women, adding to Israel's guilt (אַשְׁמָה, ashmah)." Ezra frames the intermarriage crisis using the Levitical guilt-offering conceptual framework — the marriages constitute ma'al (trespass/unfaithfulness) against God's holiness, generating ashmah (guilt). Ezra 10:19 then records that the offending priests "gave their hand in pledge to put away their wives, and being guilty (אֲשֵׁמִים, ashemim), they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt" — literally enacting the Leviticus 5 guilt offering protocol.
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Text: Leviticus 5:15
OT Text Referred to: Ezra 10:10
Subject: reparation offering context
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Leviticus 5:15 addresses trespass (מַעַל, ma'al) against "the LORD's holy things," requiring a guilt offering (אָשָׁם) and restitution. Ezra 10:10 applies this trespass terminology to the intermarriage crisis: "You have committed trespass (מְעַלְתֶּם, me'altem) and married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel." The use of the Levitical ma'al vocabulary classifies the mixed marriages not merely as a social problem but as a sacrilege against God's holiness — the same category of offense that Leviticus 5:15 addresses with the guilt offering. Ezra's language demonstrates that the post-exilic community applied Levitical trespass categories to the specific crisis of foreign marriages threatening the community's covenantal integrity.