Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,
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