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Ezra - ch 8 v 1 - 20
- Now these are the heads of their fathers' `houses', and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
- Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush.
- Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.
- Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
- Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
- And of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
- And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
- And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him fourscore males.
- Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
- And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and threescore males.
- And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty and eight males.
- And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten males.
- And of the sons of Adonikam, `that were' the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them threescore males.
- And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
- And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
- Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, who were teachers.
- And I sent them forth unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, `and' his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.
- And according to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;
- and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
- and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.
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