12
From the family of Azgad: Johanan son of Hakkatan and 110 other men.
13
From the family of Adonikam, who came later : Eliphelet, Jeuel, Shemaiah, and 60 other men.
14
From the family of Bigvai: Uthai, Zaccur, and 70 other men.
15
I assembled the exiles at the Ahava Canal, and we camped there for three days while I went over the lists of the people and the priests who had arrived. I found that not one Levite had volunteered to come along.
16
So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were leaders of the people. I also sent for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of discernment.
Footnotes 1
[a].
As in Greek and Syriac versions and an alternate reading of the Masoretic Text; the other alternate reads Zabbud.