Ezra 8:1–14 — The returning exiles

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8:1 The returning exiles

8 Now these are the family heads and their descendants by number who went with me from Bavel (Babylon) to Yerushalem (Jerusalem) in the reign of King Artahshashta (Artaxerxes):

2 from the descendants of Pinhas: Gereshom,
from the descendants of Itamar: Daniyel,
from the descendants of David: Hatush,
3 from the descendants of Shekanyah and Par’osh: Zekaryah (Zechariah) and a hundred and fifty other men,
4 from the descendants of Pahat -Moav: Zerahyah’s son Elyehoeynay and two hundred other men,
5 from the descendants of Shekanyah: Yahaziel’s son and three hundred other men,
6 from the descendants of Adin: Yonatan’s (Jonathan’s) son Eved and fifty other men,
7 from the descendants of Eylam: Atalyah’s (Athaliah’s) son Yeshayah (Isaiah) and seventy other men,
8 from the descendants of Shefatyah: Mika’el’s (Michael’s) son Zevadyah and eighty other men;
9 from the descendants of Yoav (Joab): Yehiel’s son Ovadyah (Obadiah) and 218 other men,
10 from the descendants of Shelomit: Yosifyah’s son and one hundred and sixty other men,
11 from the descendants of Bevay: his son Zekaryah (Zechariah) and twenty-eight other men,
12 from the descendants of Azgad: Hakatan’s son Yohanan and one hundred and ten other men,
13 from the later descendants of Adonikam: Elifelet, Yeiel, and Shemayah, and sixty other men,
14 and from the descendants of Bigvay: Utay and Zakur and seventy other men.

OET-RV by section EZRA 8:1

The returning exiles