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When I found no families from the priests or the Levites there,
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I sent word to Eleazar, Iduel, Maasmas, Elnathan, Shemaiah, Jarib, Nathan, Elnathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were the leaders and persons of great learning.
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I told them to go to Iddo, who was the official in charge at the residence of the treasury,
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and ordered them to ask Iddo and his relatives and the treasurers at that place to send us some persons to serve as priests in the Lord's house.
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By the Lord's direction, they brought us knowledgeable persons from the family of Mahli, Levi's son, and grandson of Israel, namely Sherebiah with eighteen members of his family;