1. These are the heads of the ancestral houses and the genealogies of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
2. Of the descendants of Phinehas, Gershon; of the descendants of Ithamar, Daniel; of the descendants of David, Hattush,
3. son of Shecaniah; of the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him one hundred and fifty males were enrolled;
4. of the descendants of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males;
5. of the descendants of Zattu, Shecaniah, son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males;
6. of the descendants of Adin, Ebed, son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males;
7. of the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah, son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males;
8. of the descendants of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, son of Michael, and with him eighty males;
9. of the descendants of Joab, Obadiah, son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males;
10. of the descendants of Bani, Shelomoth, son of Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males;
11. of the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah, son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males;
12. of the descendants of Azgad, Johanan, son of Hakkatan, and with him one hundred and ten males;
13. of the descendants of Adonikam, younger sons, whose names were Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males;
14. of the descendants of Bigvai, Uthai, son of Zakkur, and with him seventy males.
15. I assembled them by the river that flows toward Ahava, where we camped for three days. There I perceived that both laymen and priests were present, but I could not discover a single Levite.
16. So I sent for discerning leaders, Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam,