Nehemiah 7:1Wycliffe's Bible with Modern SpellingAnd after that the wall of Jeru-salem was builded, and I had set up the gates thereof, and had numbered the porters, and singers, and deacons [or Levites], See the chapter |
And Hezekiah ordained companies of priests and deacons [or Levites] by their partings, each man in his own office, that is, as well of priests as of deacons [or Levites], to burnt sacrifices and peaceable sacrifices, that they should minister, and acknowledge, and sing in the gates of the castles [or tents] of the Lord.
And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerub-babel, the son of Salathiel, and Joshua, the son of Jozadak, and others of their brethren, priests and deacons [or Levites], and all that came from the captivity into Jerusalem, began the work of God’s temple; and they ordained deacons, from twenty years and above, for to hasten the work of the Lord;