Ezra 10:16

New American Bible - revised edition

The exiles did as agreed. Ezra the priest appointed as his assistants men who were heads of ancestral houses, one for each ancestral house, all of them designated by name. They held sessions to examine the matter, beginning with the first day of the tenth month.

Cross References

Ezra 10:15

Only Jonathan, son of Asahel, and Jahzeiah, son of Tikvah, were against this proposal, with Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.

Ezra 10:17

By the first day of the first month they had finished dealing with all the men who had taken foreign women for wives. The List of Transgressors.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor; the complaint of the stranger I pursued,

John 7:51

“Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?”

Deuteronomy 13:14

that certain scoundrels have sprung up in your midst and have led astray the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Come, let us serve other gods,” whom you have not known,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you must inquire carefully into the matter and investigate it thoroughly. If you find that it is true and an established fact that this abomination has been committed in your midst,