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Ezra 7-10
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Nehemiah
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Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king
of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah,
the son of Hilkiah,
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The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
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The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of
Meraioth,
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The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
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The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
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This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he [was] a ready
scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel
had given: and the king granted him all his request,
according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
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And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and
of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the
porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the
seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
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And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was]
in the seventh year of the king.
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For upon the first [day] of the first month began he to
go up from Babylon, and on the first [day] of the fifth
month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of
his God upon him.
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For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the
LORD, and to do [it], and to teach in Israel statutes and
judgments.
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Now this [is] the copy of the letter that the king
Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, [even]
a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD,
and of his statutes to Israel.
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Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe
of the law of the God of heaven, perfect [peace], and at
such a time.
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I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel,
and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are
minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go
with thee.
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Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven
counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
according to the law of thy God which [is] in thine hand;
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And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his
counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel,
whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem,
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And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all
the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of
the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for
the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:
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That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks,
rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink
offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of
your God which [is] in Jerusalem.
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And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy
brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold,
that do after the will of your God.
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The vessels also that are given thee for the service of
the house of thy God, [those] deliver thou before the God
of Jerusalem.
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And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy
God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow
[it] out of the king's treasure house.
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And I, [even] I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to
all the treasurers which [are] beyond the river, that
whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the
God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
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Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred
measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and
to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing
[how much].
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Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be
diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for
why should there be wrath against the realm of the king
and his sons?
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Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and
Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of
this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll,
tribute, or custom, upon them.
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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that [is] in
thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge
all the people that [are] beyond the river, all such as
know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know
[them] not.
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And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law
of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him,
whether [it be] unto death, or to banishment, or to
confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
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Blessed [be] the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put
[such a thing] as this in the king's heart, to
beautify the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem:
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And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his
counsellors, and before all the king's mighty
princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD
my God [was] upon me, and I gathered together out of
Israel chief men to go up with me.
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These [are] now the chief of their fathers, and [this is]
the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon,
in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
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Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar;
Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
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Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh;
Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the
males an hundred and fifty.
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Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah,
and with him two hundred males.
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Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with
him three hundred males.
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Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and
with him fifty males.
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And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah,
and with him seventy males.
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And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of
Michael, and with him fourscore males.
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Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with
him two hundred and eighteen males.
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And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and
with him an hundred and threescore males.
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And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and
with him twenty and eight males.
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And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan,
and with him an hundred and ten males.
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And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names [are]
these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them
threescore males.
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Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with
them seventy males.
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And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to
Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I
viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none
of the sons of Levi.
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Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for
Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for
Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men;
also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
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And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at
the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say
unto Iddo, [and] to his brethren the Nethinims, at the
place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers
for the house of our God.
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And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a
man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of
Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and
his brethren, eighteen;
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And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of
Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had
appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and
twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
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Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava,
that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek
of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and
for all our substance.
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For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of
soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the
way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The
hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek
him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them
that forsake him.
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So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was
intreated of us.
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Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with
them,
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And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the
vessels, [even] the offering of the house of our God,
which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and
all Israel [there] present, had offered:
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I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty
talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents,
[and] of gold an hundred talents;
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Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two
vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
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And I said unto them, Ye [are] holy unto the LORD; the
vessels [are] holy also; and the silver and the gold
[are] a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your
fathers.
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Watch ye, and keep [them], until ye weigh [them] before
the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of
the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of
the house of the LORD.
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So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the
silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring [them] to
Jerusalem unto the house of our God.
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Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth
[day] of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the
hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the
hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
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And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
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Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the
vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of
Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him [was]
Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them [was] Jozabad
the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui,
Levites;
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By number [and] by weight of every one: and all the
weight was written at that time.
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[Also] the children of those that had been carried away,
which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt
offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all
Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs,
twelve he goats [for] a sin offering: all [this was] a
burnt offering unto the LORD.
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And they delivered the king's commissions unto the
king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side
the river: and they furthered the people, and the house
of God.
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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me,
saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the
Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of
the lands, [doing] according to their abominations,
[even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the
Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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For they have taken of their daughters for themselves,
and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled
themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the
hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this
trespass.
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And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my
mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my
beard, and sat down astonied.
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Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at
the words of the God of Israel, because of the
transgression of those that had been carried away; and I
sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
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And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my
heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I
fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD
my God,
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And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my
face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased
over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up unto the
heavens.
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Since the days of our fathers [have] we [been] in a great
trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we,
our kings, [and] our priests, been delivered into the
hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to
captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as
[it is] this day.
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And now for a little space grace hath been [shewed] from
the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to
give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may
lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our
bondage.
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For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us
in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the
sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to
set up the house of our God, and to repair the
desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and
in Jerusalem.
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And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we
have forsaken thy commandments,
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Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets,
saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an
unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the
lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from
one end to another with their uncleanness.
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Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons,
neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek
their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be
strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave [it] for
an inheritance to your children for ever.
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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds,
and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast
punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast
given us [such] deliverance as this;
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Should we again break thy commandments, and join in
affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest
not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us],
so that [there should be] no remnant nor escaping?
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O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we remain
yet escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before
thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee
because of this.
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Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed,
weeping and casting himself down before the house of God,
there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great
congregation of men and women and children: for the
people wept very sore.
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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of
Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed
against our God, and have taken strange wives of the
people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel
concerning this thing.
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Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put
away all the wives, and such as are born of them,
according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that
tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done
according to the law.
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Arise; for [this] matter [belongeth] unto thee: we also
[will be] with thee: be of good courage, and do [it].
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Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites,
and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to
this word. And they sware.
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Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went
into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and
[when] he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink
water: for he mourned because of the transgression of
them that had been carried away.
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And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem
unto all the children of the captivity, that they should
gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;
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And that whosoever would not come within three days,
according to the counsel of the princes and the elders,
all his substance should be forfeited, and himself
separated from the congregation of those that had been
carried away.
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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered
themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It
[was] the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the
month; and all the people sat in the street of the house
of God, trembling because of [this] matter, and for the
great rain.
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And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have
transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase
the trespass of Israel.
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Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your
fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves
from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
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Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud
voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
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But the people [are] many, and [it is] a time of much
rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither [is
this] a work of one day or two: for we are many that have
transgressed in this thing.
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Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let
all them which have taken strange wives in our cities
come at appointed times, and with them the elders of
every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce
wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
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Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of
Tikvah were employed about this [matter]: and Meshullam
and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
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And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the
priest, [with] certain chief of the fathers, after the
house of their fathers, and all of them by [their] names,
were separated, and sat down in the first day of the
tenth month to examine the matter.
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And they made an end with all the men that had taken
strange wives by the first day of the first month.
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And among the sons of the priests there were found that
had taken strange wives: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua
the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and
Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
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And they gave their hands that they would put away their
wives; and [being] guilty, [they offered] a ram of the
flock for their trespass.
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And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
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And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and
Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
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And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael,
Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
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Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah,
(the same [is] Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
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Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters;
Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
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Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and
Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and
Malchijah, and Benaiah.
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And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and
Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
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And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah,
and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
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Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai,
[and] Athlai.
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And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah,
Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
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And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah,
Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
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And [of] the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah,
Shemaiah, Shimeon,
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Benjamin, Malluch, [and] Shemariah.
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Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad,
Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, [and] Shimei.
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Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
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Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
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Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
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Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
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And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
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And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
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Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
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Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
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Shallum, Amariah, [and] Joseph.
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Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina,
Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.
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All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had
wives by whom they had children.