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After this were the principal men of the families chosen according to their tribes, to go up with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.
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And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical tabrets and flutes.
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And all their brethren played, and he made them go up together with them.
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And these are the names of the men which went up, according to their families among their tribes, after their several heads.
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The priests, the sons of Phinees the son of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedec, the son of Saraias, and Joacim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, out of the kindred of Phares, of the tribe of Judah;
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Who spake wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month.
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And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they dwelt as strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon.
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And they returned unto Jerusalem, and to the other parts of Jewry, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus, Nehemias, and Zacharias, and Reesaias, Enenius, Mardocheus, Beelsarus, Aspharasus, Reelius, Roimus, and Baana, their guides.
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The number of them of the nation, and their governors, sons of Phoros, two thousand an hundred seventy and two; the sons of Saphat, four hundred seventy and two:
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The sons of Ares, seven hundred fifty and six: