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So all Isra'el was listed by genealogies, and these were recorded in the book of the kings of Isra'el. Then Y'hudah was carried away captive to Bavel because of their unfaithfulness.
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The first people to return to their possessions in the cities were the Isra'elim, the cohanim, the L'vi'im and the temple servants.
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In Yerushalayim lived some descendants of Y'hudah, some descendants of Binyamin and some descendants of Efrayim and of M'nasheh:
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'Utai the son of 'Ammihud, the son of 'Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, from the descendants of Peretz the son of Y'hudah.
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Of the Shiloni: 'Asayah the firstborn and his sons.
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Of the descendants of Zerach: Ye'u'el and their kinsmen, 690.
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Of the descendants of Binyamin: Salu the son of Meshulam the son of Hodavyah the son of Hasnu'ah,
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Yivneyah the son of Yerocham, Elah the son of 'Uzi the son of Mikhri, Meshulam the son of Sh'fatyah the son of Re'u'el the son of Yivneyah,
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and their kinsmen, according to their generations - altogether 956. All these men were leaders of fathers' clans.