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Nehemiah 12:7-23 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

7. Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the priestly heads and their kinsmen in the days of Jeshua.

8. The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, who, together with his kinsmen, was in charge of the thanksgiving hymns,

9. while Bakbukiah and Unno and their kinsmen ministered opposite them by turns.

10. Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib the father of Joiada;

11. Joiada the father of Johanan, and Johanan the father of Jaddua.

12. In the days of Joiakim these were the priestly family heads: for Seraiah, Meraiah; for Jeremiah, Hananiah;

13. for Ezra, Meshullam; for Amariah, Jehohanan;

14. for Malluchi, Jonathan; for Shebaniah, Joseph;

15. for Harim, Adna; for Meremoth, Helkai;

16. for Iddo, Zechariah; for Ginnethon, Meshullam;

17. for Abijah, Zichri; for Miamin,…; for Moadiah, Piltai;

18. for Bilgah, Shammua; for Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

19. and for Joiarib, Mattenai; for Jedaiah, Uzzi;

20. for Sallu, Kallai; for Amok, Eber;

21. for Hilkiah, Hashabiah; for Jedaiah, Nethanel.

22. In the time of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the heads of ancestral houses of the priests were written down in the Book of Chronicles, up until the reign of Darius the Persian.

23. The sons of Levi: the family heads were written down in the Book of Chronicles, up until the time of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.

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