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New Century Version

Ezra 10:17

By the first day of the first month, they had finished with all the men who had married non-Jewish women.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Church;   Decision;   Ezra;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Divorce;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Giants;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Addan;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
Hebrew Names Version
They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
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.
English Standard Version
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 English Translation
and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.
Amplified Bible
And by the first day of the first month they finished investigating all the men married to foreign wives.
New American Standard Bible
And they finished investigating all the men who had married 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And vntill the first day of the first moneth they were finishing the businesse with al the men that had taken strange wiues.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they completed investigating all the men who had married foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
Berean Standard Bible
and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with 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.
Complete Jewish Bible
They finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Darby Translation
And they ended with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
Easy-to-Read Version
And by the first day of the first month, they finished discussing all the men who had married foreign women.
George Lamsa Translation
And they finished examining all the men who had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
Good News Translation
and within the next three months they investigated all the cases of men with foreign wives.
Lexham English Bible
They finished investigating all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Literal Translation
And they finished with all the men who had dwelt with foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And on ye first daye of ye first moneth broughte they the matter to a conclusion, concernynge all the men yt had take straunge wyues.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And they got to the end of all the men who were married to strange women by the first day of the first month.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And vntill the first day of the first moneth they were finishing the businesse, with al the men that had taken straunge wyues.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
King James Version (1611)
And they made an ende, with all the men that had taken strange wiues, by the first day of the first moneth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they made an end with all the men who had taken strange 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle men weren endid, that hadden weddid `wyues aliens, `til to the firste dai of the firste monethe.
Update Bible Version
And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign 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.
New King James Version
By the first day of the first month they finished questioning all the men who had taken pagan wives.
New Living Translation
By March 27, the first day of the new year, they had finished dealing with all the men who had married pagan wives.
New Life Bible
And by the first day of the first month, they finished finding the names of all the men who had married wives from the other nations.
New Revised Standard
By the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and they made an end with all the men who 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.
Revised Standard Version
and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
Young's Literal Translation
and they finish with all the men who have settled strange women unto the first day of the first month.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They finished investigating all the men who had married foreign wives by the first day of the first month.

Contextual Overview

15 Only Jonathan son of Asahel, Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, Meshullam, and Shabbethai the Levite were against the plan. 16 So the returned captives did what was suggested. Ezra the priest chose men who were leaders of the family groups and named one from each family division. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to study each case. 17 By the first day of the first month, they had finished with all the men who had married non-Jewish women. 18 These are the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women: From the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and Jeshua's brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. 19 (They all promised to divorce their wives, and each one brought a male sheep from the flock as a penalty offering.) 20 From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. 21 From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah. 22 From the descendants of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah. 23 Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. 24 Among the singers: Eliashib. Among the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3548, bc 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. Ezra 10:17

Cross-References

Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of the land, saw her, he took her and forced her to have sexual relations with him.

Gill's Notes on the 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. 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.


 
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