Ezra 10:17

17 By the first day of the first month they had finished dealing with every man who had married a foreign wife.

Ezra 10:17 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 10:17

And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
wives
Finished their inquiry and examination of them:

by the first day of the first month;
the month Nisan, answering to part of March and April; so that they were three months about this work.

Ezra 10:17 In-Context

15 Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this.

16 So the exiles went ahead with the plan. Ezra the priest picked men who were family heads, each one by name. They sat down together on the first day of the tenth month to pursue the matter.

17 By the first day of the first month they had finished dealing with every man who had married a foreign wife.

18 Among the families of priests, the following were found to have married foreign wives:

19 They all promised to divorce their wives and sealed it with a handshake. For their guilt they brought a ram from the flock as a Compensation-Offering.