² The first^(A) to live in their towns on their own property again were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.^(B)

⁷⁰ The priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, and some of the people settled in their towns, and the rest of Israel settled in their towns.^(A)

⁶ These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar^(A) of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.^(B)