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,
then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomin
“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.