Nehemiah 10:8

New King James Version

Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah.

Hebrew Names Version
Ma`azyah, Bilgai, Shemayah; these were the Kohanim.

King James Version
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.

English Standard Version
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests.

New Century Version
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These are the priests.

New English Translation
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

Amplified Bible
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah—these were the priests.

New American Standard Bible
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

World English Bible
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these are the Priestes.

Legacy Standard Bible
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests.

Berean Standard Bible
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

Complete Jewish Bible
Meshulam, Aviyah, Miyamin,

Darby Translation
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.

Easy-to-Read Version
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests who put their names on the sealed agreement.

George Lamsa Translation
Maasiah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.

Good News Translation

Lexham English Bible
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah—these are the priests.

Literal Translation
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Maasga, Bilgai and Semaia: these were prestes.

American Standard Version
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.

Bible in Basic English
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Maaziah, Bilgai, Semaiah: these were priestes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin;

King James Version (1611)
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the Priests.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Maazia, Belgai, Samaia; these were priests.

English Revised Version
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
these weren prestis.

Update Bible Version
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.

Webster's Bible Translation
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these [were] the priests.

New Living Translation
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

New Life Bible
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These are the religious leaders.

New Revised Standard
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah, - these, were, the priests.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.

Revised Standard Version
Ma-azi'ah, Bil'gai, Shemai'ah; these are the priests.

Young's Literal Translation
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these [are] the priests.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now those who placed their seal on the document were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, ² Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, ³ Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, ⁴ Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, ⁵ Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, ⁶ Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, ⁷ Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, ⁸ Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests. ⁹ The Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, and Kadmiel. ¹⁰ Their brethren: Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bilgai: Nehemiah 12:5, Bilgah

Shemaiah: Nehemiah 3:29, Nehemiah 12:6, Nehemiah 12:18, Nehemiah 12:42, Ezra 10:21

Cross-References

Micah 5:6
They shall waste with the sword the land of Assyria, And the land of Nimrod at its entrances; Thus He shall deliver us from the Assyrian, When he comes into our land And when he treads within our borders.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The names are not personal, but designate families. The seal of the high-priestly house of Seraiah was probably appended either by Ezra or Eliashib, both of whom belonged to it.