Ezra 8:16-18

American Standard Version

¹⁶ Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, ^[a]who were teachers. ¹⁷ And ^[b]I sent them forth unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto ^[c]Iddo, and his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God. ¹⁸ And according to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us ^[d]a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;