¹⁶ And the children of the captivity did so. And 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.

¹⁴ then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

⁵¹ Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?