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Ezra’s List of Family Leaders

These are the leaders of the families listed among those who left Babylon with me during the reign of King Artaxerxes: From Phinehas’s descendants: Gershom. From Ithamar’s descendants: Daniel. From David’s descendants: Hattush. From Shecaniah’s descendants and[a] from Parosh’s descendants: Zechariah, along with 150 men whose genealogies had been certified. From Pahath-moab’s descendants: Zerahiah’s son Eliehoenai and 200 men with him. From Zattu’s descendants: Jahaziel’s son Shecaniah and 300 men with him. From Adin’s descendants: Jonathan’s son Ebed and 50 men with him. From Elam’s descendants: Athaliah’s son Jeshaiah and 70 men with him. From Shephatiah’s descendants: Michael’s son Zebadiah and 80 men with him. From Joab’s descendants: Jehiel’s son Obadiah and 218 men with him. 10 From Bani’s descendants:[b] Josiphiah’s son Shelomith and 160 men with him. 11 From Bebai’s descendants: Bebai’s son Zechariah and 28 men with him. 12 From Azgad’s descendants: Hakkatan’s son Johanan and 110 men with him. 13 From Adonikam’s later descendants: Eliphelet, Jeuel, Shemaiah, and 60 men with him. 14 From Bigvai’s descendants: Uthai, Zabbud,[c] and 70 men with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:3 The Heb. lacks and
  2. Ezra 8:10 So LXX. The Heb. lacks Bani
  3. Ezra 8:14 So MT, but qere directs that the name be read Zaccur, perhaps due to confusion with the nearly identical Heb. word for men (Zecarim)

Family Heads Who Returned With Ezra

These were the heads of their families[a] and the register of those returnees from Babylonia who came up with me in the reign of King Artaxerxes: From the descendants[b] of Phinehas: Gershom. From the descendants[c] of Ithamar: Daniel. From the descendants[d] of David: Hattush. From the descendants[e] of Shecaniah, from the descendants[f] of Parosh: Zechariah and with him one hundred and fifty registered males. From the descendants[g] of Pahath-Moab: Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah and with him two hundred males. From the descendants[h] of Zattu:[i] Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males. From the descendants[j] of Adin: Ebed son of Jehonathan, and with him fifty males. From the descendants[k] of Elam: Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males. From the descendants[l] of Shephatiah: Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him eighty males. From the descendants[m] of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males. 10 From the descendants[n] of Bani:[o] Shelomith son of Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males. 11 From the descendants[p] of Bebai: Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males. 12 From the descendants[q] of Azgad: Jehohanan son of Haqqatan, and with him one hundred and ten males. 13 From the descendants[r] of Adonikam, those who came last, these were their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, Shemaiah, and with them sixty males. 14 From the descendants[s] of Bigvai: Uthai son of Zabud,[t] and with him seventy males.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:1 Literally “fathers”
  2. Ezra 8:2 Or “sons”
  3. Ezra 8:2 Or “sons”
  4. Ezra 8:2 Or “sons”
  5. Ezra 8:3 Or “sons”
  6. Ezra 8:3 Or “sons”
  7. Ezra 8:4 Or “sons”
  8. Ezra 8:5 Or “sons”
  9. Ezra 8:5 Commentators and translators agree that there is a name missing from the Masoretic text. Zattu has been restored from the LXX
  10. Ezra 8:6 Or “sons”
  11. Ezra 8:7 Or “sons”
  12. Ezra 8:8 Or “sons”
  13. Ezra 8:9 Or “sons”
  14. Ezra 8:10 Or “sons”
  15. Ezra 8:10 Commentators and translators agree that there is a name missing from the Masoretic text. Bani has been restored from the LXX
  16. Ezra 8:11 Or “sons”
  17. Ezra 8:12 Or “sons”
  18. Ezra 8:13 Or “sons”
  19. Ezra 8:14 Or “sons”
  20. Ezra 8:14 Or “and Zabud”