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1 Esdras 8:37-48 World English Bible (WEB)

37. of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight men:

38. of the sons of Azgad. Astath, Joannes son of Hakkatan Akatan, and with him a hundred and ten men:

39. of the sons of Adonikam, the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeuel, and Shemaiah. Samaias, and with them seventy men:

40. of the sons of Bigvai. Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.

41. And I gathered them together to the river called Theras; and there we pitched our tents three days, and I surveyed them.

42. But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

43. then sent I to Eleazar, and Ariel Iduel, and Maasmas,

44. and Elnathan, and Samaias, and Jarib Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding.

45. And I bade them that they should go to Iddo Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of Casiphia, the treasury:

46. and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, and to his brethren, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of our Lord.

47. And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us men of understanding of the sons of Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Asebebias, and his sons, and his brethren, who were eighteen,

48. and Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men;

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