1. And these [are] heads of their fathers, and the genealogy of those going up with me, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king, from Babylon.
2. From the sons of Phinehas: Gershom; from the sons of Ithamar: Daniel; from the sons of David: Hattush;
3. from the sons of Shechaniah, from the sons of Pharosh: Zechariah, and with him, reckoning themselves by genealogy, of males a hundred and fifty.
4. From the sons of Pahath-Moab: Elihoenai son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred who are males.
5. From the sons of Shechaniah: the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred who are males.
6. And from the sons of Adin: Ebed son of Jonathan, and with him fifty who are males.
7. And from the sons of Elam: Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him seventy who are males.
8. And from the sons of Shephatiah: Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him eighty who are males.
9. From the sons of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen who are males.
10. And from the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah, and with him a hundred and sixty who are males.
11. And from the sons of Bebai: Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight who are males.
12. And from the sons of Azgad: Johanan son of Hakkatan, and with him a hundred and ten who are males.
13. And from the younger sons of Adonikam--and these [are] their names--Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty who are males.
14. And from the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud, and with them seventy who are males.
15. And I gather them unto the river that is going unto Ahava, and we encamp there three days; and I consider about the people, and about the priests, and of the sons of Levi I have found none there;
16. and I send for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, heads, and for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding;
17. and I charge them for Iddo the head, in the place Casiphia, and put in their mouth words to speak unto Iddo, [and] his brethren the Nethinim, in the place Casiphia, to bring to us ministrants for the house of our God.
18. And they bring to us, according to the good hand of our God upon us, a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel, and Sherebiah, and his sons, and his brethren, eighteen;