<p class="bodytext">The priests:p> <p class="bodytext">the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family<n id="1" /> of Jeshua), 973;p>

Shabbethai and Jozabad, leaders<n id="1" /> of the Levites, were in charge of the external work for the temple of God;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;We &#8211; the priests, the Levites, and the people &#8211; have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families<n id="1" /> at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the <sc>LORDsc> our God, as is written in the law.

A priest of Aaron&#8217;s line<n id="1" /> will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.

We also accept responsibility for<n id="1" /> bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the <sc>LORDsc>.

We also accept responsibility, as is written in the law, for bringing the firstborn of our sons and our cattle and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks to the temple of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the temple of our God.

They went over the Fountain Gate and continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall. They passed the house of David and continued on to the Water Gate toward the east.p>

and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king&#8217;s nature preserve,<n id="1" /> so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall<n id="2" /> and for the house to which I go.&#8221; So the king granted me these requests,<n id="3" /> for the good hand of my God was on me.

and their colleagues<n id="1" /> who were carrying out work for the temple &#8211; 822; and Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malkijah,