1Soothly these were[the] priests and [the] deacons [or Levites], that went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and with Joshua; Seraiah, Jeremy [or Jeremiah], Ezra,

2Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

3Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

4Iddo, Ginnetho, Miamin,

5Abiah, Maadiah, Bilgah,

6Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,

7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah; these were the princes of priests and their brethren, in the days of Jeshua.

8Certainly deacons [or Levites]; Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, were over the hymns, they and their brethren;

9and Bakbukiah, and Unni, and the brethren of them, each man in his office.

10And Jeshua begat Joiakim, and Joiakim begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,

11and Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.

12And in the days of Joiakim these were the priests, and the princes of the meines of priests; Seraiah, Meraiah; Jeremy, Hananiah;

13of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

14of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

15of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

16of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;

17of Abiah, Zichri; of Miniamin, ( ⁰); and of Moadiah, Piltai;

18of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

19of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

20of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;

21of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.

22Deacons [or Levites] in the days of Eliashib, and of Joiada, and of Johanan, and of Jaddua, were written princes of meines, and priests, in the realm of Darius king of Persia.

23The sons of Levi, princes of meines, were written in the book of the words of days, and unto the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.

24And the princes of deacons [or Levites]were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel; and the brethren of them by their whiles, or times, that they should praise and acknowledge by the commandment of king David, the man of God, and they should keep evenly by order.

25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, and Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were keepers of the gates, and of the porches before the gates.

26These men were serving in the days of Joiakim, the son of Joshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah, the duke, and of Ezra, the priest and writer.

27Forsooth in the hallowing of the wall of Jerusalem they sought deacons [or Levites] of all their places, to bring them into Jerusalem, and to make the hallowing in gladness, in the doing of thankings, and in song, and in cymbals, and in psalteries, and in harps.

28And the sons of singers were gathered together, both from the field places about Jerusalem, and from the towns of Netophathi,

29and from the house of Gilgal, and from the country of Geba, and of Azmaveth; for the singers had builded towns to themselves in the compass of Jerusalem.

30And [the] priests and deacons [or Levites] were cleansed, and then they cleansed the people, and the gates, and the wall.

31And I made the princes of Judah to go up on the wall, and I ordained two great choirs, or companies, of men praising the Lord; and they went to the right side on the wall, to the gate of the dunghill.

32And Hoshaiah went after them, and the half part of the princes of Judah,

33and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

34Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemai-ah, and Jeremy [or Jeremiah].

35And of the sons of priests singing in trumps; Zechariah, the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph.

36And his brethren; Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, and Hanani, in the instruments of song of David, the man of God; and Ezra, the writer, before them,

37in the gate of the well. And men went up against them, in the degrees of the city of David, in the ascending or going up of the wall, over the house of David, and unto the gate of the waters at the east coast.

38And the second choir of men telling out thankings went over against, or on the other side, and I went after them; and half part of the people was on the wall, and on the tower of ovens, and they went unto the broadest wall;

39and over the gate of Ephraim, and over the eld [or old] gate, and over the gate of fishes, and over the tower of Hananeel, and over the tower of Meah, and they came unto the gate of flock; and they stood still in the gate of keeping.

40And the two choirs of men praising stood in the house of God, and I and the half part of magistrates with me.

41And the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zech-ariah, Hananiah, in trumps;

42and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer; and the singers sang clearly, and Jezrahiah, their sovereign also.

43And they offered in that day great sacrifices, and were glad; for God had made them glad with great gladness. But also their wives and their lawful children were joyful, and the gladness of Jerusalem was heard [a] far.

44Also they numbered in that day the men that were over the keeping places of the treasure, to receive moist [or liquor] sacrifices, and the first fruits, and tithes, that in seemliness, or fairness, of doing of thankings to the Lord, princes of the city should bring in by them, for the priests and deacons [or Levites]; for Judah was glad in priests and deacons present.

45And they kept the keeping of their God, the keeping of cleansing; and singers, and porters, by the command-ment of David, and of Solomon, his son;

46for in the days of David and of Asaph, from the beginning, princes of singers were ordained, praising in song, and acknowledging to God.

47And all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave parts to singers and to porters, by all the days; and they hallowed a part for the deacons [or Levites], and the deacons hallowed a part for the sons of Aaron.