Ezra 10:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of families, according to their families, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest and certain heads of fathers' houses were selected, according to their fathers' houses, each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest chose certain men, heads of families, each representing their family houses. Each of them was designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And the sons of the transmigration did so. And Ezra, the priest, and the men who were the leaders of the families in the houses of their fathers, and all according to their names, went and sat down, on the first day of the tenth month, so that they might examine the matter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest, and the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and all by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Ezra 10:16 Cross References

Ezra 10:15

Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levites supported them.

Ezra 10:17

By the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

John 7:51

“Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?”

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire and make a thorough investigation. If the charge is established that such an abhorrent thing has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly destroying it and everything in it, even putting its livestock to the sword.