¹⁶ 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.

¹⁴ then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

⁵¹ "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"