40 The Levites included:

Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants
from Hodaviah’s descendants74
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40 The Levites:(A)

the descendants of Jeshua(B) and Kadmiel (of the line of Hodaviah)74
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40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

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Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants(A) accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

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Some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, musicians, gatekeepers and temple servants, also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.(A)

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And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

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15 I gathered them at the river[a] that flows to Ahava,(A) and we camped there for three days. I searched among the people and priests, but found no Levites(B) there.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:15 Or canal

The Return to Jerusalem

15 I assembled them at the canal that flows toward Ahava,(A) and we camped there three days. When I checked among the people and the priests, I found no Levites(B) there.

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15 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

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30 So I purified them from everything foreign(A) and assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.(B)

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30 So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign,(A) and assigned them duties, each to his own task.

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30 Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

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