Translations
The returned exiles acted accordingly. Ezra the priest appointed specific men — heads of families, one representative per ancestral house, each named — and on the first day of the tenth month they sat down to investigate each case.
The returning exiles did so. Ezra the kohen selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to each ancestral house, each designated by name. And on the first day of the tenth month they convened to examine the matter.
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.
So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,