¹⁰ This is what took place. The priests and the Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in proper order according to kindred and the grouping of the ancestral houses, before the people, to make the offering to the Lord as it is written in the book of Moses; this they did in the morning.^(A)

⁶ And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.^(A)

⁴ Make preparations by your ancestral houses by your divisions, following the written directions of King David of Israel and the written directions of his son Solomon.^(A)

⁴ These are the names of the men who went up, according to their ancestral houses in the tribes, over their groups:^(A)

The Leaders Who Returned

²⁸ These are the leaders, according to their ancestral houses and their groups, who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:^(A)