And the children of the captivity did so
 Put away their strange wives: 
 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;
 from all their other business, and gave themselves up to attend to this wholly: 
 and sat down in the first day of the tenth month;
 the month Tebeth, which answers to part of December and January; this was ten days after the assembly of all the people met and broke up: these took their places in the great court, and there sat 
 to examine the matter;
 the accounts brought in from the several cities by the magistrates thereof, and recorded them.