World English Bible
Ezra 10:17
“They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.”
Verse in context — Ezra 10
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.
About Ezra
Return from exile and rebuilding the temple under Zerubbabel and Ezra.
Explore all chapters of Ezra →