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Lists of priests and Levites (Ne 12:1-26)

Following the lists of residents of Jerusalem are the lists of priests and Levites. The first of these records the names of those priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel and Joshua (Ne 12:1-9).

(The Ezra mentioned in this list is not the more commonly known Ezra.)

After recording the descendants of Joshua for the next six generations (Ne 12:10-11), the writer returns to record the heads of the other original priestly families (Ne 12:12-21).

Besides dealing with the families of priests, the records also deal with ordinary temple servants. Some of the records extend to an era later than the time of Nehemiah (Ne 12:22-26).