⁴ and he said,^[a] “You need no longer carry it on your shoulders. Now worship the Lord your God and serve his nation Israel; prepare yourselves by your families and kindred, in accordance with the directions of King David of Israel and the magnificence of his son Solomon.^(A)

⁵ Stand in order in the temple^[a] according to the groupings of the ancestral houses of you Levites, who minister before your kindred the people of Israel,^(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)