Scripture · Old Testament
Ezra 10:17
Ezra 10:17 is verse 17 of Ezra chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
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.
World English Bible
They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
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Ezra 10:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 (Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)
16 So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,
17 and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
18 Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
19 They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
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