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Ezra 10:17 Explained in Context
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Verse 17. 17And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
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Quick Meaning
This verse dates completion of the marriage investigations to the first month
Read It With
- Ezra 10:16–17
Read Ezra 10:16–17 together. This verse dates completion of the marriage investigations to the first month Read Ezra 10:16–17 as one complete Ezra thought unit: Ezra and named family heads separate themselves as an investigative body, begin sitting on the first day of the tenth month, and finish examining the men with foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The summary establishes duration and investigators but remains silent about evidence standards, appeals, women's testimony, children's interests, and outcomes beyond the list. Within that movement, this verse dates completion of the marriage investigations to the first month
Read Ezra 10:16–17 together
Why these verses belong together: The returnees' compliance, Ezra's selection of family heads, tenth-month opening, case-by-case sitting, and first-month completion form the investigation summary; verse 18 begins the resulting list.
Verse 16. 16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Verse 17. 17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
Follow the Context
- The returnee community proceeds with the proposed process.
- Ezra selects family heads by name and they sit as investigators.
- The examination continues for roughly three months until completion.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Ezra 10:17 does not turn the fact that it dates completion of the marriage investigations to the first month into a standalone universal rule. Male family heads do not represent every wife's or child's interests automatically.
What Remains True
Within Ezra's own literary movement, Ezra 10:17 dates completion of the marriage investigations to the first month.
How It Can Shape Life
- Apply Ezra 10:17 by noticing that it dates completion of the marriage investigations to the first month; in a comparable situation, any faith-based investigation affecting a family should use trained independent reviewers, confidentiality, anti-retaliation measures, and access to civil legal rights.
Teach It Back
Explain Ezra 10:17's precise role in Ezra 10:16–17. Include its Persian-period, temple, Torah, identity, administrative, or family context as relevant, one material uncertainty, and one conclusion it does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Ezra 10:16–17 — A three-month tribunal examines the casesSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The duration is reported, but hearing standards, testimony, appeals, and remedies are not.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Ezra 10:16–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew aramaic text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezra
Open Scriptures
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic wording, morphology, names, clause relations, and translation controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezra.xml, Hebrew and Aramaic words and morphology for 10:16–17
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NET Bible: Ezra with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Material lexical, grammatical, textual, Persian-period, numerical, and translation notes within the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible Ezra PDF, printed pp. 761–762, translation and translator notes on 10:16–17
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