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Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.
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Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;
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Of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed a hundred and fifty males.
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Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
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Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
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And of the sons of Adin, Ebed, the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
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And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah; the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
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And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.
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Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and sixty males.
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And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
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And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan, the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten males.
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And of the sons of Adonikam, the last, whose names were Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.
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And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
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And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.
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Then I sent for Eliezer and Ariel and Shemaiah and Elnathan Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechariah and Meshullam, all responsible men; and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise men.
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And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.
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And by the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;
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And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
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And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.