Ezra 10:17

And they made an end with all the men, &c. The Hebrew runs -And they made an end with the whole (business), i.e. the men that had, &c." The English rendering expresses the meaning. But the wording of the present Hebrew text can hardly be correct, and there is some ground for the conjecture that the words" the men that had married strange wives -found their way into the text from a heading or a marginal gloss.

that had taken strange wives R.V. that had married strange women.

by the first day of the first month The investigation had lasted precisely three months. It lasted until the 1st of Nisan, having been continued throughout the months of Tebeth, Shebat (Zechariah 1:7) and Adar (Ezra 6:15).