Therefore these be the princes of meines, and this is the genealogy of them, that were in the realm of Artaxerxes, the king, and went up with me from Babylon.
Also and they sent lots against their brethren, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, and before Zadok, and Ahimelech, and before the princes of meines of [the] priests, and of deacons [or Levites]; [the] lot parted evenly all things, both the greater and the less.
and his brethren, of stronger age, two thousand and seven hundred, princes of meines. And king David made them sovereigns of Reubenites, and Gadites, and of the half lineage of Manasseh, into all the service of God, and of the king.
Therefore all Israel was numbered, and the sum of them was written in the book of [the] kings of Israel and of Judah; and they were translated or brought over into Babylon for their sin.
And then [the] princes of the fathers of Judah and of Benjamin rose up, and the priests, and the deacons [or Levites], and each man whose spirit God raised, for to go up to build the temple of the Lord, that was in Jerusalem.
that came with Zerubbabel; that is, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. This is the number of [the] men of the sons of Israel;
It is deemed of me, that whom-ever it pleaseth in my realm of the people of Israel, and of his priests, and deacons [or Levites], to go into Jerusalem, go he with thee.
and that bowed his mercy into me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the mighty princes of the king. And I was comforted by the hand of the Lord my God, that was in me, and I gathered together princes of the sons of Israel, the which went up with me to Jerusalem.
that Ezra went up from Babylon, and he was a swift writer in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel gave; and the king gave to him all his asking, by the good hand of his Lord God on him.
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.