Nehemiah 7:1New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, See the chapter |
In the second year after their arrival at the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their people, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites from twenty years old and up to have the oversight of the work on the house of the Lord.