Ezra 10:17
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New International Version (©2011)
and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.

New Living Translation (©2007)
By March 27, the first day of the new year, they had finished dealing with all the men who had married pagan wives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They finished investigating all the men who had married foreign wives by the first day of the first month.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

International Standard Version (©2012)
By the first day of the first month they concluded their investigation of all of the men who had married foreign wives.

NET Bible (©2006)
and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
By the first day of the first month, they had finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they finished with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.

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

American Standard Version
And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
And they ended with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.

English Revised Version
And they made an end with all the men that had married strange women by the first day of the first month.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they made an end with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.

World English Bible
They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

Young's Literal Translation
and they finish with all the men who have settled strange women unto the first day of the first month.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:15-44 The best reformers can but do their endeavour; when the Redeemer himself shall come to Zion, he shall effectually turn away ungodliness from Jacob. And when sin is repented of and forsaken, God will forgive it; but the blood of Christ, our Sin-offering, is the only atonement which takes away our guilt. No seeming repentance or amendment will benefit those who reject Him, for self-dependence proves them still unhumbled. All the names written in the book of life, are those of penitent sinners, not of self-righteous persons, who think they have no need of repentance.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - They made an end with all the men. They ran through the whole list of those who were accused of having taken strange wives, and adjudicated on every case, by the first day of the first month, Nisan, corresponding nearly with our April. Deducting Sabbaths, the number of days in the three months would be seventy-five or seventy-six; but it is of course possible that the court did not sit continuously. THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAD MARRIED THE STRANGE WIVES (vers. 18-44). Aware of the danger that the nation might relapse into the sin which he was seeking to root out, Ezra punishes the wrong-doers by placing their names on record, that others might fear to do the like. He assigns the first place in his catalogue of offenders to the priests, doubtless because in them the sin was greatest; they, as the special custodians of the Law, were most bound to have observed the Law. Next to the priests he puts the Levites, on the same principle, because of their semi-sacerdotal character. He then concludes with the laymen, arranged under their several families. By the list of laymen it appears that ten only out of some thirty-six lay families were implicated in the sin. Three of the four priestly families, on the other hand, and even the near-kindred of the high priest, were among the guilty. It is remarkable that it is Ezra, a priest, and one by many accused of over-sacerdotalism, who gives this testimony against his own order.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

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The People's Confession of Sin
…15Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. 16And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, 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.

Ezra 10:16 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,
Ezra 10:18 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.