-43. And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives,.... They proposed to do it, and actually did it:and being guilty; of which they were fully convinced:they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass; to make atonement for it, and thereby set an example to others to do the like.
Aben Ezra observes, that we do not find that the trespass offering was a mulct to such who married strange wives, and conjectures, that it was the advice of the chief men to do it.