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Now these are the heads of their fathers' households and the genealogical enrollment of those who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of King Artaxerxes:

of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, ^(C1)Hattush;

of the sons of Shecaniah who was of the sons of ^(C1)Parosh, Zechariah, and with him 150 males who were in the genealogical list;

of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah and two hundred males with him;

of the sons of ^(F1)Zattu, Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel and three hundred males with him;

and of the sons of ^(C1)Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan and fifty males with him;

and of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah and seventy males with him;

and of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael and eighty males with him;

of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel and 218 males with him;

and of the sons of ^(F1)Bani, Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah and 160 males with him;

and of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai and twenty-eight males with him;

and of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan and 110 males with him;

and of the sons of Adonikam, the last ones, these being their names: Eliphelet, ^(F1)Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and sixty males with them;

and of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and ^(F1)Zabbud, and seventy males with ^(F2)them.

Now I assembled them at ^(C1)the river that runs to Ahava, where we camped for three days; and when I paid close attention to the people and the priests, I ^(C2)did not find any Levites there.

So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, ^(F1)leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, teachers.

And I sent them to Iddo the ^(F1)leading man at the place called Casiphia; and I ^(F2)told them what to say to ^(F3)Iddo and his brothers, ^(C1)the temple servants at the place Casiphia, that is, to bring ministers to us for the house of our God.

^(C1)And as the good hand of our God was upon us, they brought us a ^(C2)man of insight from the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and brothers, eighteen men;

and Hashabiah and ^(F1)Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, twenty men;

and 220 of ^(C1)the temple servants, whom David and the officials had provided for the service of the Levites, all of them designated by name.