Ezra 10:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The exiles did what had been proposed. The priest Ezra selected men  who were family heads, all identified by name, to represent  their ancestral families.  They convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

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

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

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 Tagairtí Cros

Ezra 10:15

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

Ezra 10:17

and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.

John 7:51

‘Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it? ’

Deuteronomy 13:14

you are to enquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable act has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you must strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword. Completely destroy everyone in it as well as its livestock with the sword.