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to Elkia, Asabias; to Jedeiu, Nathanael.
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The Levites in the days of Eliasib, Joada, and Joa, and Joanan, and Idua, recorded heads of families: also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
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And the sons of Levi, heads of families, written in the book of the chronicles, even to the days of Joanan son of Elisue.
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And the heads of the Levites Asabia, and Sarabia, and Jesu: and the sons of Cadmiel, and their brethren over against them, were to sing hymns of praise, according to the commandment of David the man of God, course by course.
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When I gathered the porters,
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in the days of Joakim son of Jesus, son of Josedec, and in the days of Neemia: and Esdras the priest scribe.
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And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep a feast of dedication and gladness with thanksgiving, and they sounded cymbals with songs, and psalteries and harps.
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And the sons of the singers were assembled both from the neighbourhood round about to Jerusalem, and from the villages,
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and from the country: for the singers built themselves villages by Jerusalem.
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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the wall.
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And they brought up the princes of Juda on the wall, and they appointed two great for thanksgiving, and they passed on the right hand on the wall of the dung-gate.