the sons of [the] porters; the sons of Shallum, sons of Ater, sons of Talmon, sons of Akkub, sons of Hatita, sons of Shobai, all these were an hundred and eight and thirty;
And in the seventh year of Artaxerxes king, there went up into Jerusalem men of the sons of Israel, and of the sons of priests, and of the sons of deacons [or Levites], and of singers, and of porters, and of Nethinims.
and I sent them to Iddo, that is the chief in the place of Casiphia, and I put in the mouth of them the words, which they should speak to Iddo, and to his brethren, Nethinims, in the place of Casiphia, for to bring to us the ministers of the house of our God.
and of [the] Nethinims, which David and the princes had given to the services of deacons [or Levites], they brought two hundred and twenty Nethinims; all these were called by their names.
and others of the people, priests, deacons [or Levites], porters, and singers, Nethinims, and all men that separated themselves from the peoples of lands to the law of God, the wives of them, the sons of them, and the daughters of them; all that might understand,
And so these be the princes of the province, that dwelled in Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah; and each man dwelled in his possession, in their cities of Israel, that is, priests, deacons [or Levites], Nethinims, and the sons of the servants of Solomon.