1Now these are the heads of their fathers' households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

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Ezra 7:7, Ezra 7:7, 1 Chronicles 9:1, Ezra 1:5, Ezra 7:13

2Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush.

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1 Chronicles 3:22, 1 Chronicles 3:22, 1 Chronicles 3:1, 1 Chronicles 6:3, 1 Chronicles 6:15

3Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.

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Ezra 2:3, Ezra 2:3, Nehemiah 7:8, Nehemiah 10:14, Nehemiah 7:8

4Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.

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Ezra 2:6, Ezra 2:6, Nehemiah 7:11, Nehemiah 10:14, Nehemiah 7:11

5Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

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6Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.

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Ezra 2:15, Nehemiah 10:16, Nehemiah 7:20, Ezra 2:15, Nehemiah 10:16

7Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.

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Nehemiah 7:12, Ezra 2:31, Ezra 2:7, Nehemiah 7:34, Nehemiah 7:12

8Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.

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Nehemiah 7:9, Ezra 2:4, Nehemiah 11:4, Nehemiah 7:9, Ezra 2:4

9Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

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Ezra 2:6, Nehemiah 7:11, Ezra 2:6, Nehemiah 7:11

10Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males.

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11Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.

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Ezra 10:28, Ezra 10:28, Nehemiah 7:16, Ezra 2:11, Nehemiah 7:16

12Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.

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Ezra 2:12, Nehemiah 7:17, Ezra 2:12, Nehemiah 7:17

13Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

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Ezra 2:13, Ezra 2:13, Nehemiah 7:18, Nehemiah 7:18

14Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

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Nehemiah 7:19, Ezra 2:14, Nehemiah 10:12, Nehemiah 7:19, Ezra 2:14

15I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

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Ezra 8:21, Ezra 7:7, Ezra 8:31, Ezra 8:21, Ezra 7:7

16Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, who were teachers.

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1 John 5:20, Ezra 8:13, 1 Chronicles 26:14, 2 Chronicles 2:12, Ezra 10:21

17I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

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Ezra 2:43, Ezra 2:43, Titus 1:5, Jeremiah 1:9, 1 Chronicles 23:3

18According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

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Ezra 7:28, Nehemiah 2:8, Jeremiah 3:15, Ezra 7:28, Nehemiah 2:8

19and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

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1 Chronicles 6:1, 1 Chronicles 6:16, 1 Chronicles 6:1, 1 Chronicles 6:16, 1 Chronicles 6:19

20and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.

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Ezra 2:43, Ezra 2:43, Ezra 7:7, Ezra 7:7, 1 Chronicles 9:2

21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

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2 Chronicles 20:3, 2 Chronicles 20:3, Joel 1:14, Joel 1:14, Isaiah 30:21

22For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him."

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1 Peter 3:12, 1 Peter 3:12, Psalms 33:18, Psalms 33:19, Psalms 33:18

23So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

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Jeremiah 29:12, Jeremiah 29:13, Jeremiah 29:12, Jeremiah 29:13, Matthew 7:7

24Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

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Ezra 8:18, Ezra 8:19, Ezra 8:18, Ezra 8:19

25and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:

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Ezra 7:14, Ezra 7:16, Ezra 8:33, Ezra 7:14, Ezra 7:16

26I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;

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Ezra 1:9, Ezra 1:11, Ezra 1:9, Ezra 1:11

27and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

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Lamentations 4:2, Lamentations 4:2

28I said to them, "You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.

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Leviticus 22:2, Leviticus 22:3, Leviticus 22:2, Leviticus 22:3, Leviticus 21:6

29Watch, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord."

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Ezra 8:33, Ezra 8:34, Ezra 8:33, Ezra 8:34, 1 Chronicles 26:20

30So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

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Isaiah 60:13, Ezra 8:22, 1 Chronicles 29:2, 1 Chronicles 29:3, Psalms 122:9

31Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

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Ezra 8:21, Ezra 8:22, Ezra 8:21, Ezra 8:22, Ezra 7:9

32We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.

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Nehemiah 2:11, Nehemiah 2:11, Ezra 7:8, Ezra 7:9, Ezra 7:8

33On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;

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Nehemiah 3:4, Nehemiah 3:4, Ezra 8:30, Nehemiah 3:21, Ezra 8:30

34the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was written at that time.

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35The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to the Lord.

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Ezra 6:17, Ezra 6:17, Psalms 116:12, Psalms 116:19, Psalms 66:10

36They delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and God's house.

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Ezra 7:21, Ezra 7:24, Ezra 7:21, Ezra 7:24, Ezra 4:7