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When I gathered the porters,
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in the days of Joakim son of Jesus, son of Josedec, and in the days of Neemia: and Esdras the priest scribe.
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And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep a feast of dedication and gladness with thanksgiving, and they sounded cymbals with songs, and psalteries and harps.
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And the sons of the singers were assembled both from the neighbourhood round about to Jerusalem, and from the villages,
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and from the country: for the singers built themselves villages by Jerusalem.
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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the wall.
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And they brought up the princes of Juda on the wall, and they appointed two great for thanksgiving, and they passed on the right hand on the wall of the dung-gate.
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And after them went Osaia, and half the princes of Juda,
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and Azarias, and Esdras, and Mesollam,
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and Juda, and Benjamin, and Samaias and Jeremia.
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And of the sons of the priest with trumpets, Zacharias son of Jonathan, son of Samaias, son of Matthania, son of Michaia, son of Zacchur, son of Asaph: