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Now these are the chiefs of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the 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 reckoned by genealogy of the males, a hundred and fifty.
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Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Elihoenai 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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of the sons also 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 fourscore 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 threescore males;
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and of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and 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 last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these -- Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah -- and with them threescore males;
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of the sons also of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
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And I gathered them together at the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days. And I viewed the people and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
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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, men of understanding.
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And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo and to his brethren the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto u ministers for the house of our God.
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And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;
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and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;