1 Esdras 8:47

47 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought unto us skillful men of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Sherebiah and his sons and his brethren, who were eighteen.

1 Esdras 8:47 In-Context

45 And I bade them that they should go unto Iddo the captain, who was in the place of the treasury;
46 and commanded them that they should speak unto Iddo and to his brethren and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests' office in the house of the Lord.
47 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought unto us skillful men of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Sherebiah and his sons and his brethren, who were eighteen.
48 And Hashabiah, and Annunus, and Jeshaiah his brother, of the sons of Hananiah, and their sons, were twenty men;
49 and of the servants of the temple whom David had ordained and the principal men for the service of the Levites, to wit, the servants of the temple, two hundred and twenty, the catalog of whose names were shown.
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