24 Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tax, tribute, or custom on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God.

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(A)Some of the children of Israel, the priests, (B)the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and (C)the Nethinim came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

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13 Let it now be known to the king that, if this city is built and the walls completed, they will not pay (A)tax, tribute, or custom, and the king’s treasury will be diminished.

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20 There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have (A)ruled over all the region (B)beyond the River; and tax, tribute, and custom were paid to them.

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36 The priests: the sons of (A)Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three; 37 the sons of (B)Immer, one thousand and fifty-two; 38 the sons of (C)Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven; 39 the sons of (D)Harim, one thousand and seventeen.

40 The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of [a]Hodaviah, seventy-four.

41 The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight.

42 The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all.

43 (E)The Nethinim: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, 44 the sons of Keros, the sons of [b]Siaha, the sons of Padon, 45 the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub, 46 the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shalmai, the sons of Hanan, 47 the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah, 48 the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam, 49 the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai, 50 the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of [c]Nephusim, 51 the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, 52 the sons of [d]Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, 53 the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Tamah, 54 the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha.

55 The sons of (F)Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of (G)Sophereth, the sons of [e]Peruda,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 2:40 Judah, Ezra 3:9, or Hodevah, Neh. 7:43
  2. Ezra 2:44 Sia, Neh. 7:47
  3. Ezra 2:50 Nephishesim, Neh. 7:52
  4. Ezra 2:52 Bazlith, Neh. 7:54
  5. Ezra 2:55 Perida, Neh. 7:57

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