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1 Esdras 8:39-45 World English Bible (WEB)

39. of the sons of Adonikam, the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeuel, and Shemaiah. Samaias, and with them seventy men:

40. of the sons of Bigvai. Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.

41. And I gathered them together to the river called Theras; and there we pitched our tents three days, and I surveyed them.

42. But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

43. then sent I to Eleazar, and Ariel Iduel, and Maasmas,

44. and Elnathan, and Samaias, and Jarib Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding.

45. And I bade them that they should go to Iddo Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of Casiphia, the treasury: