45. And I bade them that they should go to Iddo Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of Casiphia, the treasury:
46. and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, and to his brethren, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of our Lord.
47. And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us men of understanding of the sons of Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Asebebias, and his sons, and his brethren, who were eighteen,
48. and Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men;
49. and of the temple-servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple-servants, the catalogue of all their names was showed.
50. And there I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and cattle that were with us:
51. for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.
52. For we had said to the king, that the power of our Lord would be with them that seek him, to support them in all ways.
53. And again we implored our lord as touching these things, and found him favourable to us.
54. Then I separated twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, Eserebias, and Assamias, and ten men of their brethren with them: