¹⁶ Then the descendants of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain ^(A)heads of the fathers’ households, were set apart by the fathers’ households, each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

^51 (A)“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

¹⁴ then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an ^[a]abomination was committed among you,