1. And so these are the leaders of the families, with their genealogy, of those who ascended with me from Babylon, during the reign of king Artaxerxes.
2. From the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. From the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. From the sons of David, Hattush.
3. From the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Parosh, Zechariah, and one hundred fifty men were numbered with him.
4. From the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah, and two hundred men were with him.
5. From the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel, and three hundred men were with him.
6. From the sons of Adin, Ebed, the son of Jonathan, and fifty men were with him.
7. From the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah, the son of Athaliah, and seventy men were with him.
8. From the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, the son of Michael, and eighty men were with him.
9. From the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel, and two hundred eighteen men were with him.
10. From the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah, and one hundred sixty men were with him.
11. From the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and twenty-eight men were with him.
12. From the sons of Azgad, Johanan, the son of Hakkatan, and one hundred and ten men were with him.
13. From the sons of Adonikam, who were the last, and these were their names: Eliphelet, and Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and sixty men were with them.
14. From the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and seventy men were with them.
15. Now I gathered them together at the river that runs down to Ahava, and we stayed there for three days. And I sought among the people and among the priests for the sons of Levi, and I found none there.
16. And so I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Shemaiah, and Elnathan, and Jarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were leaders, and Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise.