Ezra 10:17
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
American King James Version (AKJV)
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 (ASV)
And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And they got to the end of all the men who were married to strange women by the first day of the first month.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And they made an end with all the men that had married strange women by the first day of the first month.
Clarke's Ezra 10:17 Bible Commentary
The first day of the first month - So they were three whole months in examining into this affair, and making those separations which the law required.
Barnes's Ezra 10:17 Bible Commentary
The business occupied the commission full two months. In some cases, it may be presumed, they had to summon persons before them who did not wish to part with their foreign wives; in all, they had to assure themselves that the wives were foreign; finally, they had in every case where they decreed a divorce to make out the "writing of divorcement" Ezra 10:3.