Ezra:8:15-20

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* And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava ; and there abode we in tents three days : and I viewed the people , and the priests , and found there none of the sons of Levi . * Then sent I for Eliezer #Eliy #ezer #, for Ariel #Ari #el #, for Shemaiah Sh @ma #yah #, and for Elnathan , and for Jarib , and for Elnathan , and for Nathan , and for Zechariah , and for Meshullam , chief men ro #sh #; also for Joiarib , and for Elnathan , men of understanding . * And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia , and I told them what they should say unto Iddo , and to his brethren the Nethinims N , at the place Casiphia , that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God . * And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding , of the sons of Mahli , the son of Levi , the son of Israel Yisra #el #; and Sherebiah , with his sons and his brethren , eighteen sh @moneh #; * And Hashabiah , and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari , his brethren and their sons , twenty ; * Also of the Nethinims , whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites , two hundred and twenty Nethinims : all of them were expressed by name .

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