◄ Ezra 10:17 ►
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Good News Translation
and within the next three months they investigated all the cases of men with foreign wives.

New Revised Standard Version
By the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

Contemporary English Version
and they did not finish until the first day of the first month of the next year.

New American Bible
By the first day of the first month they had finished dealing with all the men who had taken foreign women for wives.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

A.

3548. B.C.

456. the first day (The cases brought before the council were either so many, or so complicated, that, though they separated themselves from other employments, yet they were three whole months in examining into their affairs, and making the necessary separations required by the law.)

Context
The People's Confession of Sin
…16And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest, and the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and all by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 17And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
Cross References
Ezra 10:16
And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest, and the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and all by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Ezra 10:18
And there were found among the sons of the priests that had taken strange wives: Of the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia.

Ezra 10:16
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