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of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
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of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
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As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of ancestral houses; also the priests until the reign of Darius the Persian.
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The Levites, heads of ancestral houses, were recorded in the Book of the Annals until the days of Johanan son of Eliashib.
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And the leaders of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, with their associates over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, section opposite to section.
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Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.
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These were in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of the governor Nehemiah and of the priest Ezra, the scribe.
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Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with rejoicing, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.
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The companies of the singers gathered together from the circuit around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;
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also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.
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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.