And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of the fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, and each of them by name, were set apart, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
So. Cajetan improperly concludes, that the sentence was not put in execution; because Nehemias (chap. xiii. 23.) complains of such marriages. (Calmet)
But the guilty might have resumed their women. (Haydock)
Went. Hebrew, "were separated. "(Haydock)
By making a small change, we may translate, with 3 Esdras, "and Esdras separated or chose the men. "Josephus seems generally to have followed the Greek of 3 Esdras. The Syriac says there were 20 judges.