1. The following is a list of the priests and Levites who returned from exile with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with the High Priest Joshua:Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah.These men were leaders among all their fellow-priests in the days of Joshua.The following were in charge of the singing of hymns of thanksgiving: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah.
9. The following formed the choir that sang the responses: Bakbukiah, Unno, and their fellow-Levites.
10. Joshua was the father of Joiakim; Joiakim was the father of Eliashib; Eliashib was the father of Joiada;
11. Joiada was the father of Jonathan; and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.
22. A record was kept of the heads of the Levite families and of the priestly families during the lifetimes of the following High Priests: Eliashib, Joiada, Jonathan, and Jaddua. This record was finished when Darius was emperor of Persia.
23. The heads of the Levite families, however, were recorded in the official records only until the time of Jonathan, the grandson of Eliashib.
24. Under the direction of Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua, Binnui, and Kadmiel, the Levites were organized into groups. Two groups at a time praised God responsively and gave thanks to him, in accordance with the instructions given by King David, the man of God.
25. The following temple guards were in charge of guarding the storerooms by the gates to the Temple: Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub.
26. These people lived during the time of Joiakim, the son of Joshua and grandson of Jehozadak, and the time of Nehemiah the governor, and the time of Ezra, the priest who was a scholar of the Law.
27. When the city wall of Jerusalem was dedicated, the Levites were brought in from wherever they were living, so that they could join in celebrating the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals and harps.
28. The Levite families of singers gathered from the area where they had settled round Jerusalem and from the towns round Netophah,
29. and from Bethgilgal, Geba, and Azmaveth.
30. The priests and the Levites performed ritual purification for themselves, the people, the gates, and the city wall.
31. I assembled the leaders of Judah on top of the wall and put them in charge of two large groups to march round the city, giving thanks to God.The first group went to the right on top of the wall towards the Rubbish Gate.