Dissent is recorded; the inquiry is completed

15Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah stood against this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.

16So the sons of the exile did so. And Ezra the priest set apart men, heads of fathers’ houses according to their fathers’ houses, all of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.

17And they finished with all the men who had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.