26. These were in the days of Yoyaqim son of Yĕshua, son of Yotsaḏaq, and in the days of Neḥemyah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
27. And at the dedication of the wall of Yerushalayim they sought out the Lĕwites in all their places, to bring them to Yerushalayim to perform the dedication with gladness, and with thanksgivings, and with singing, cymbals, harps and lyres.
28. And the sons of the singers gathered together from the countryside around Yerushalayim, from the villages of the Netophathites,
29. and from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geḇa and Azmaweth – for the singers had built themselves villages all around Yerushalayim.
30. And the priests and Lĕwites cleansed themselves, and they cleansed the people, and the gates, and the wall.
31. And I brought the rulers of Yehuḏah up on the wall, and appointed two large thanksgiving choirs, to go to the right on the wall toward the Dung Gate,
32. and after them went Hoshayah and half of the rulers of Yehuḏah,
33. then Azaryah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
34. Yehuḏah, and Binyamin, and Shemayah, and Yirmeyah,
35. and of the sons of the priests with trumpets: Zeḵaryah son of Yonathan, son of Shemayah, son of Mattanyah, son of Miḵayah, son of Zakkur, son of Asaph,
36. and his brothers Shemayah and Azar’ĕl, Milalai, Gilalai, Ma‛ai, Nethanĕ’l, and Yehuḏah, Ḥanani with instruments of songs of Dawiḏ the man of Elohim, with Ezra the scribe before them.