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Before 12 And lo, I perceived that God had not Chrift fent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired 445. hun.

cir. 445.

† Heb. multiplied their letters paffing to Tobiah.

13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do fo, and fin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetefs Noadiah, and the reft of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

16 And it came to pass that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us faw these things, they were much caft down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

17. Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah + fent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

18 For there were many in Judah fworn unto him, because he was the fon-in-law of Shecha-. niah the son of Arah; and his fon Johanan had taken the daughter of Mefhullam, the fon of Berechiah.

19 Alfo they reported his good deeds before Or, mat- me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah fent letters to put me in fear.

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CHAP. VII.

■ Nehemiah committeth the charge of Jerufalem to Hanani and Hananiah. 5 A register of the genealogy of them which came at the first out of Babylon, 8 of the people, 39 of the priests, 43 of the Levites, 46 of the Nethinims, 57 of Solomon's fervants, 63 and of the priests which could not find their pedigree. 66 The whole number of them with their fubftance. 70 Their oblations.

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OW it came to pafs when the wall was built, and I had fet up the doors; and the porters and the fingers, and the Levites were appointed,

2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hamaniah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerufalem (for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.)

3 And I faid unto them, Let not the gates of Jerufalem be opened, until the fun be hot; and while they ftand by, let them thut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerufalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

4 Now the city was + large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.

5¶ And my God put into mine heart, to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that

from Babylon to Jerufalem.

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had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerufalem, and to Judah, every one cir. 536. unto his city;

7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mor- Or, Sedecai, Bilihan, Mifpereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baa- raiah. nah. The number, I fay, of the men of the people of Ifrael, was this;

8 The children of Parofh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred feventy and two.

10 The children of Arah, fix hundred fifty and two.

11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jethua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.

12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.

14 The children of Zaccai, feven hundred and threefcore.

15 The children of Binnui, fix hundred || Or, Bani. furty and eight.

16 The children of Bebai, fix hundred twenty and eight.

17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.

18 The children of Adonikam, fix hundred threefcore and seven.

19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.

20 The children of Adin, fix hundred fifty and five.

21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.

22 The children of Hafhum, three hundred twenty and eight.

23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.

24 The children of Hariph, an hundred Or, Jora. and twelve.

25 The children of || Gibeon, ninety and five. Or, Gib 25 The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, bar. 26

an hundred fourscore and eight.

27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.

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36 The children of Jericho, three hundred Chrift forty and five.

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Or, Hodaviah, Ezra 2. 40.

or Judah,

Ezia 3. 9.

37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, feven hundred twenty and one.

38 The children of Senaah, three thousand mine hundred and thirty.

39 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the houfe of Jefhua, nine hundred feventy and three.

40 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and feven.

42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

43 The Levites: the children of Jefhua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, feventy and four.

44 ¶ The fingers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.

45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and cight.

45 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hafhupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

47 The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,

49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

50 The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

51 The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phafeah,

52 The children of Befai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephithefim,

53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

54 The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

$5 The children of Barkos, the children of Sifera, the children of Tamah,

56 The children of Neziah, the children of

their pedigrees with their oblations.

63 And of the priefts: the children of Ha- Before baiah, the children of Koz, the children of Bar- Chrift zillai, which took one of the daughters of Bar536. zillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.

64 Thefe fought their regifter among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

65 And the Tirthatha faid unto them, that Or, the they should not eat of the most holy things, till governor, there stood up a priest with Urim and Thum

mim.

66 The whole congregation together, was forty and two thousand three hundred and threefcore,

67 Befide their men-fervants, and their maidfervants, of whom there were feven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five finging-men and finging-women.

68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and fix; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

69 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; fix thousand feven hundred and twenty affes.

70 ¶ And + fome of the chief of the fathers † Heb, gave unto the work. The Tirthatha gave to the part, treasure, a thousand drams of gold, fifty bafons, five hundred and thirty priefts garments.

71 And fome of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of filver.

72 And that which the reft of the people gave, was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of filver, and threefcore and feven priests garments.

73 So the priests and the Levites, and the porters, and the fingers, and fome of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Ifrael, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Ifrael were in their cities.

CHAP. VIII.

1 The religious manner of reading and hearing the law. 9 They comfort the people. 13 The forwardness of them to hear, and be inftructed. 16 They keep the feaft of tabernacles.

ND all the people gathered themselves cir. 445.

atipha The children of Solomon's fervants: A together as one man, into the street that a gr

57 the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

58 The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

59 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, Or, Ami. the children of Amon.

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60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's fervants, were three hundred ninety and two. 61 All these were they which went up also from Tel-melalı, Tel-hareíha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not thew their fathers house, nor their feed, whether they were of Ifrael.

62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, fix hundred ferty and two.

Ezra 3. 1.

was before the water-gate; and they spake unto Ezra the fcribe to bring the book of the law bEzra 7. 6. of Mofes, which the LORD had commanded to Ifrael.

2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women, and all + that could hear with understanding, upon † Heb. that the first day of the seventh month.

underflood in bearing. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water-gate, + from the morning + Heb. until mid-day, before the men and the women, from the and those that could understand; and the ears light. of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

4 And Ezra the fcribe stood upon at pulpit + Heb. of wood, which they had made for the pur- tower of pofe;

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5 And Ezra opened the book in the + fight of all the people; (for he was above all the people) and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

6 And Ezra bleffed the LORD the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, amen, with their hands: and they bowed

A folemn faft, and repentance.

the children of Ifrael done fo: and there was very great gladness.

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18 Alfo day by day, from the firft day unto the cir. 445. laft day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feaft feven days, and on the eighth day was + a folemn affembly, according † Heb. a unto the manner. reftraint. CHA P. IX.

A folemn faft, and repentance of the people. 4 The Levites make a religious confeffion of God's goodnefs, and their wickedness.

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7 Allo Jefhua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maafeiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites caused the people to understand the law: and the people flood in their place.

8 So they read in the book, in the law of God diftinctly, and gave the fenfe, and caufed them to understand the reading.

9¶And Nehemiah, which is || the Tirfhatha, and Ezra the prieft the fcribe, and the Levites that taught the people, faid unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

to Then he faid unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the fweet, and fend portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared : for this day is holy unto the LORD: neither be you forry; for the joy of the LORD is your ftrength.

11 So the Levites ftilled all the people, faying, Hold your peace; for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.

12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to fend portions, and to make great mirth, because they had underftood the words that were declared unto them.

13 And on the fecond day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests and the Levites, unto Ezra the fcribe, even || to understand the words of the law.

Or, that they might 14 "And they found written in the law which inftruit in the LORD had commanded + by Moses, that the the words of children of Ifrael fhould dwell in booths, in the the law. feaft of the seventh month;

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15 And that they should publifh and proclaim Lev. 23. in all their cities, and in Jerufalem, faying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive-branches, Deut. 16. and pine-branches, and myrtle-branches, and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

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16 So the people went forth and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his houfe, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the ftreet of the water-gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity, made booths, and fat under the booths: for fince the days of Jeshua the fon of Nun, unto that day, had not

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2 And the feed of Ifrael separated themselves from all + ftrangers, and ftood and confeffed their + Heb. fins, and the iniquities of their fathers. frange children.

3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God, one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confeffed, and worshipped the LORD their God.

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4¶ Then ftood up upon the ftairs of the Le-Or, vites, Jefhua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Scaffold. Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.

5 Then the Levites, Jefhua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hafhabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, faid, Stand up and blefs the LORD your God for ever and ever; and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all bleffing and praise.

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6 Thou, even thou art LORD alone: thou↳ Gen. 1. 1. haft made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their hoft, the earth and all things that are therein, the feas and all that is therein; and thou preferveft them all; and the host of heaven worfhippeth thee.

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8 And foundeft his heart faithful before thee, and madeft af covenant with him, to give Gen. 15. the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the 6. Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebufites, Gen. 12. and the Girgafhites, to give it, I fay, to his feed, 7. & 15. 18. and haft performed thy words; for thou art & 17. 7, 8. righteous:

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give them.

13 m Thou cameft down alfo upon mount Sinai, and fpakeft with them from heaven, and gaveft them right judgements, and + true laws, good ftatutes and commandments:

14 And madeft known unto them thy holy fabbath, and commandedit them precepts, ftatutes, and laws, by the hand of Mofes thy fervant :

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15 And gaveft them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughteft forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promifedft them that they fhould go in to poffefs the land, † which thou hadft fworn to give them.

16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage; but thou art + a God ready to pardon, gracious God of par. and merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindness, and forfookeft them not.

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18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and faid, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provo

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19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies, for• Exod. 13. fookeft them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire 1 Cor.10.1. by night, to fhew them light, and the way wherein they fhould go.

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20 Thou gavest alfo thy good fpirit, to inftruct them, and withheldeft not thy manna " Exod. 16. from their mouth, and gaveft them water for their thirst.

15. Josh. 5. 12. Exod. 17. 21 Yea, forty years didft thou fuftain them in the wilderness, fo that they lacked nothing; Deut. 8. their clothes waxed not old, and their feet fwelled not.

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22 Moreover, thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didft divide them into corners. So they poffeffed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

23 Their children alfo multipliedft thou as the ftars of heaven, and broughteft them into the land, concerning which thou hadft promised to their fathers, that they fhould go in to poffefs it.

24 So the children went in and poffeffed the land, and thou fubduedft before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them † as they would.

25 And they took ftrong cities, and a fat land, and poffeffed houfes full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards and olive-yards, and + fruit- | trees in abundance. So they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness,"

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26 Nevertheless, they were difobedient, and Before rebelled against thee, and caft thy law behind their backs, and flew thy prophets which teftified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

27 Therefore thou deliveredft them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies, thou gavest them faviours, who faved them out of the hand of their enemies.

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returned to do evil.

28 But after they had reft, + they did evil Heb. ty again before thee: therefore lefteft thou them in the hand of their enemies, fo that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned and cried unto thee, thou heardeft them from heaven, and many times didft thou deliver them, according to thy mercies:

29 And teftifiedit against them, that thou mighted bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy conimandments, but finned against thy judgements (which if a man do, he thall live in them) and † withdrew the fhoulder, and hardened their † Heb. they neck, and would not hear.

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30 Yet many years did thou + forbear them, ing boulder and teftifiedft against them by thy fpirit + in Hb. thy prophets yet would they not give ear: pretract therefore gaveft thou them into the hand of the over them. people of the lands.. 62 Kings 31 Nevertheless, for thy great mercies fake 17. 13. thou didst not utterly confume them, nor for- 2 Chron. fake them; for thou art a gracious and merci36. 15. + Heb. in ful God. the band of 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the thy promighty, and the terrible God, who keepeft plats. covenant and mercy; let not all the + trouble Exod. 34 feem little before thee, + that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our weariness. priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, + Heb. and on all thy people, fince the time of the kings that bath of Affyria, unto this day. found us. 33 Howbeit, thou art juft in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly;

34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments, and thy teftis monies wherewith thou didst testify against

them.

35 For they have not ferved thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodnefs that thou gaveft them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

36 Behold, we are fervants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers, to eat the fruit thereof, and the good thereof, behold, we are fervants in it.

37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou haft fet over us, because of our fins: alfo they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

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Zidkijah,

2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
3 Pafhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
4 Hattuh, Shebaniah, Malluch,
5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7 Mehullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priefts.

9 And the Levites: both Jefhua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the fons of Henadad, Kamdiel; 10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,'

11 Micha, Rehob, Hafhabiah,

12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.

14 The chief of the people; Paroh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,
18 Hodijah, Hafhum, Bezai,
19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20 Magpiafh, Mefhullam, Hezir,
21 Mefhezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
23 Hofhea, Hananiah, Hafhub,
24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,

25 Rehum, Hafhabnah, Maafeiab,
26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

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28 And the reft of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the fingers, the Nethinims, and all they that had feparated themfelves from the people of the lands, unto the law of God, their wives, their fons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding:

29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to +Heb. by walk in God's law, which was given + by Mofes the band of the fervant of God, and to obferve and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and Exod. 34. his judgements, and his ftatutes;

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30 And that we would not give our daughDeut. 7. 3. ters unto the people of the land, nor take their Exod. 20. daughters for our fons:

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31 And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the fabbath-day, to fell, that we would not buy it of them on the fabbath, or on the holy-day: and that we would leave the feventh year, and the exaction of † every debt.

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32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge Deut. 15. ourselves yearly with the third part of a fhekel, for the fervice of the houfe of our God;

+ Heb. every band.

covenant: The points thereof.

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33 For the fhew-bread, and for the continual meat-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, f of the labbaths, of the new moons, for the fet feafts, and for the holy things, and for the fin- f See offerings, to make an atonement for Ifrael, and Numb. 28, for all the work of the house of our God.

34 And we caft the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houfes of our fathers, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

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38 And the priest the son of Aaron, fhall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes : and the Levites thall bring up the tithe of the 18. 26. tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house.

39 For the children of Ifrael, and the children of Levi, fhall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the veffels of the fanctuary, and the priests that minifter, and the porters, and the fingers and we will not forfake the houfe of our God.

CHAP. XI.

The rulers, voluntary men, and the tenth man chofen by lot, dwell at Jerufalem. 3 A catalogue of their names. 20 The refidue dwell in other cities.

ND the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerufalem: the rest of the people alfo caft lots, to bring one of ten, to dwell in Jerufalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.

2 And the people bleffed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerufalem.

3¶ Now thefe are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerufalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his poffeffion in their cities, to wit, Ifrael, the priests and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's fervants.

4 And at Jerufalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the fon of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the fon of Amariah, the fon of Shephatiah, the fon of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez ;

5 And Maafeiah the fon of Baruch, the fon of Cal-hozeh, the fon of Hazaiah, the fon of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the fon of Shiloni, Bb3 6 All

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