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.
And þe sones of transmygracioun diden so. And Esdras, þe prest, and men, princes of meynees, yeden into þe howsis of her fadris, and alle men bi her names; and þei saten in þe firste dai of þe tenþe moneþe, for to seke þe thing.