1 Esdras 9:14-16

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¹⁴ Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah undertook the matter on these terms, and Meshullam and Levi and Shabbethai served with them as judges. ¹⁵ And those who had returned from exile acted in accordance with all this.

¹⁶ Ezra the priest chose for himself the leading men of their ancestral houses, all of them by name, and on the new moon of the tenth month they began their sessions to investigate the matter.