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Ezra 8:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

These are the family heads and the genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

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Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants  accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.


I issue a decree that any of the Israelites in my kingdom, including their priests and Levites, who want to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.


These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.


So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites #– #everyone whose spirit God had roused   #– #prepared to go up and rebuild the Lord’s house in Jerusalem.


The total number of family heads was 2,600 valiant warriors.


There were among Jerijah’s relatives 2,700 capable men who were family heads. King David appointed them over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh as overseers in every matter relating to God and the king.


They also cast lots the same way as their relatives the descendants of Aaron did in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites #– #the family heads and their younger brothers alike.


These  were the heads of the Levite families, chiefs according to their family records; they lived in Jerusalem.


All Israel was registered in the genealogies that are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled  to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.


and all their surrounding villages as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for themselves.


and who has shown favour to me before the king,  his counsellors, and all his powerful officers. So I took courage because I was strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God,  , and I gathered Israelite leaders to return with me.


Gershom, from Phinehas’s descendants; Daniel, from Ithamar’s descendants; Hattush, from David’s descendants,


They came with Zerubbabel,  Jeshua,  Nehemiah, Seraiah,  Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included


Parosh’s descendants  2,172


#– #came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses,  which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested  because the hand of the Lord his God was on him.





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