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and the restored exiles kept their word, and separated themselves. The priest Esdras, with the clan chiefs … family by family and man by man; they began making their enquiries on the first day of the tenth month,✻ (Ezra 10, 16)
Raaia, Rasin, Necoda, (Nehemiah 7, 50)
When the seventh month had come after the return of the Israelites to their cities, the whole people gathered, like one man, in the open space before the Water-gate; and there they would have the scribe Esdras go and fetch the book in which the law of Moses, the Lord’s prescription to Israel, was written down. (Nehemiah 8, 1)
So there and then, on the first day of the seventh month, the priest Esdras fetched out the book, in the presence of a great throng of men and women, with such children as were old enough to understand it. (Nehemiah 8, 2)
A wooden pulpit had been erected to carry the sound better, and at this the scribe Esdras stood; with him were Mathathias, Semeia, Ania, Uria, Helcia and Maasia on his right, Phadaia, Misael, Melchia, Hasum, Hasbadana, Zacharia and Mosollam on his left. (Nehemiah 8, 4)
Esdras was plainly seen, as he opened the book, by all the people underneath. When he had opened it, all rose; (Nehemiah 8, 5)
And now the governor, Nehemias, with Esdras, priest and scribe, and these Levites who interpreted to the people what was read, must needs remind them that it was a feast-day set apart to the Lord; there must be no lamenting and weeping; already the whole multitude were in tears, as they listened to the words of the law. (Nehemiah 8, 9)
Next day, all the clan chiefs and priests and Levites thronged about the scribe Esdras, to hear him interpret the law’s meaning. (Nehemiah 8, 13)
Day after day while the feast continued Esdras read out the book of God’s law to them. So for seven days they kept high festival, and on the eighth there was a gathering of the whole people, held with due solemnity. (Nehemiah 8, 18)
Here is a list of the priests and Levites who came back from exile with Zoro-babel, Salathiel’s son, and Josue. Saraia, Jeremias, Esdras, (Nehemiah 12, 1)
These held office in the days of Joacim, son of Josue son of Josedec, when Nehemias was governor and Esdras was priest and scribe. (Nehemiah 12, 26)
then Azarias, Esdras and Mosollam; then (half) the men of Juda and Benjamin;✻ then Semeia and Jeremias; (Nehemiah 12, 33)
