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Ezra 8:5-19 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

5. of the sons of Sheḵanyah, the son of Yaḥazi’ĕl, and with him three hundred males;

6. and of the sons of Aḏin, Eḇeḏ son of Yehonathan, and with him fifty males;

7. and of the sons of Ěylam, Yeshayah son of Athalyah, and with him seventy males;

8. and of the sons of Shephatyah, Zeḇaḏyah son of Miḵa’ĕl, and with him eighty males;

9. of the sons of Yo’aḇ, Oḇaḏyah son of Yeḥi’ĕl, and with him two hundred and eighteen males;

10. and of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Yosiphyah, and with him one hundred and sixty males;

11. and of the sons of Bĕḇai, Zeḵaryah son of Bĕḇai, and with him twenty-eight males;

12. and of the sons of Azgaḏ, Yoḥanan son of Haqqatan, and with him one hundred and ten males;

13. and of the last sons of Aḏoniqam, whose names are these; Eliphelet, Ye‛i’ĕl, and Shemayah, and with them sixty males;

14. and of the sons of Big̅wai, Uthai and Zabbuḏ, and with them seventy males.

15. And I assembled them at the river that flows to Ahawa, and we camped there three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and did not find any of the sons of Lĕwi there.

16. Then I sent for Eli‛ezer, for Ari’ĕl, for Shemayah, and for Elnathan, and for Yariḇ, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zeḵaryah, and for Meshullam, leaders – also for Yoyariḇ and Elnathan, men of understanding.

17. And I gave them a command for Iddo the chief man at the place Kasiphya, and put in their mouth words to speak to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Kasiphya, to bring us servants for the House of our Elohim.

18. Then, by the good hand of our Elohim upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Maḥli son of Lĕwi, son of Yisra’ĕl, and Shĕrĕḇyah, with his sons and brothers, eighteen;

19. and Ḥashaḇyah, and with him Yeshayah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

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