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Now, these, are the priests and the Levites, who came up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, - Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra;

Amariah, Malluch, Hattush;

Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth;

Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah;

Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah;

Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah;

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah, - these, were the chiefs of the priests and their brethren, in the days of Jeshua.

And, the Levites, Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, - over the choirs, he and his brethren;

and Bakbukiah and Unno their brethren, were over against them, in wards.

And Jeshua, begat Joiakim, - and Joiakim, begat Eliashib, and, Eliashib, begat Joiada;

and, Joiada, begat Jonathan, - and, Jonathan, begat Jaddua.

And, in the days of Joiakim, were priests, ancestral chiefs, - of Seraiah, Meraiah, of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

of Ezra, Meshullam, - of Amariah, Jehohanan;

of Malluchi, Jonathan, - of Shebaniah, Joseph;

of Harim, Adna, - of Meraioth, Helkai;

of Iddo, Zechariah, - of Ginnethon, Meshullam;

of Abijah, Zichri, - of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

of Bilgah, Shammua, - of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

and, of Joiarib, Mattenai, - of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

of Sallai, Kallai, - of Amok, Eber;

of Hilkiah, Hashabiah, - of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

The Levites - in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded as ancestral chiefs, - also the priests, unto the reign of Darius the Persian.

the sons of Levi, ancestral heads, were written in the book of Chronicles, - even until the days of Johanan, son of Eliashib.

And, the chiefs of the Levites, Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise - to give thanks, by the commandment of David the man of God, - ward joined to ward.

Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were watchers, doorkeepers of the ward, in the storehouses of the gates.

These, were in the days of Joiakim, son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, - and in the days of Nehemiah the pasha, and Ezra the priest the scribe.