But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.(Ezra 10:13)

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.(Ezra 10:14)

Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.(Ezra 10:15)

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.

And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.(Ezra 10:17)

And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.(Ezra 10:18)

And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.(Ezra 10:19)

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Ezra 10:16 - Cross Reference

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. (Job 29:16)

Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; (Deuteronomy 13:14)

Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? (John 7:51)