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Nehemiah 12:29-35 English Standard Version (ESV)

29. also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.

30. And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.

31. Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate.

32. And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah,

33. and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,

34. Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,

35. and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;