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After this the heads of fathers' houses were chosen to go up, according to their tribes, with their wives and sons and daughters, and their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.
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And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen to take them back to Jerusalem in safety, with the music of drums and flutes;
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and all their brethren were making merry. And he made them go up with them.
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These are the names of the men who went up, according to their fathers' houses in the tribes, over their groups:
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the priests, the sons of Phinehas, son of Aaron; Jeshua the son of Jozadak, son of Seraiah, and Joakim the son of Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, of the house of David, of the lineage of Phares, of the tribe of Judah,
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who spoke wise words before Darius the king of the Persians, in the second year of his reign, in the month of Nisan, the first month.
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These are the men of Judea who came up out of their sojourn in captivity, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon
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and who returned to Jerusalem and the rest of Judea, each to his own town. They came with Zerubbabel and Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Resaiah, Bigvai, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Reeliah, Rehum, and Baanah, their leaders.