Ezra 8:16-18

English Standard Version

¹⁶ Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and ^(A)Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight, ¹⁷ and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and^[a] the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God. ¹⁸ And ^(B)by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of ^(C)Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;