Ezra 10:17

17 and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.

Ezra 10:17 in Other Translations

17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

17 and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

17 By March 27, the first day of the new year, they had finished dealing with all the men who had married pagan wives.

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

17 and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

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 did as was proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, one from each family division, and all of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to investigate the cases,

17 and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.

18 Among the descendants of the priests, the following had married foreign women: From the descendants of Joshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.

19 (They all gave their hands in pledge to put away their wives, and for their guilt they each presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.)