Ezra 8:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ and sent them to Iddo the leader at a place called Casiphia, in order to procure for us ministers to serve in the house of our God.

¹⁸ By the gracious providence of God they sent to us Sherebiah, a wise man, one of the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel, with his sons and kinsmen, eighteen men. ¹⁹ They also sent us Hashabiah, and with him his brother Jeshaiah of the descendants of Merari with his kinsmen and their sons, twenty men,