Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."What does it mean to separate from their wives? Is this separating in the type that we use today, where you're still legally married but no longer living together? So were they sending their wives back to their parents' households, but not divorcing? Was that done back then? Or did this mean to divorce them, and send them and their children away?
Or perhaps, did it mean they were simply going to stop being intimate? Make "separate bedrooms" for their wives and those children, cutting them out of the family but continuing to care for them? The text isn't clear, and I'm not sure which I want. I despise divorce, but is God calling for it here?
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