Ezra 10:17

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.

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 the son of As'ahel and Jahzei'ah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshul'lum and Shab'bethai the Levite supported them.

16 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;

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.

18 Of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found Ma-asei'ah, Elie'zer, Jarib, and Gedali'ah, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak and his brethren.

19 They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.