“They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ezra 10 contains 44 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.