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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”