⁴⁰ The Levites included

⁷ Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants^(A) accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

¹⁵ I gathered them at the river^[a] that flows to Ahava,^(A) and we camped there for three days. I searched among the people and priests, but found no Levites^(B) there.

³⁰ So I purified them from everything foreign^(A) and assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.^(B)