1. After this the leaders of the family houses were chosen to go up, according to their tribes, with their wives, sons, daughters, their male and female servants, and their farm animals.
2. Darius sent with them one thousand cavalry to restore them back in Jerusalem in peace. With the music of drums and flutes,
3. all of their Jewish relatives were celebrating. Darius commanded them to go along with them.
4. These are the names of the men in charge of their assigned groups, who went up according to their families in the tribes:
5. the priests, the sons of Phinehas son of Aaron; Jeshua son of Jozadak son of Seraiah, and Joakim son of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, from the house of David, from the family line of Phares, and from the tribe of Judah,
6. who spoke wise words to Persia’s King Darius, in the second year of his rule, in the first month, the month of Nisan.
7. These are the ones from Judea who came up out of their captivity in exile, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken to Babylon
8. and who returned to Jerusalem and Judea, each to their own city. They came with their leaders Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Resaiah, Eneneus, Mordecai, Beelsarus, Aspharasus, Reelaiah, Rehum, and Baanah.
29. The temple servants: the family of Esau, the family of Hasupha, the family of Tabbaoth, the family of Keros, the family of Suah, the family of Padon, the family of Lebanah, the family of Hagabah,