14 Uthai and Zaccur[a]
from Bigvai’s descendants,
and 70 men with them.

15 I gathered them at the river[b] that flows to Ahava,(A) and we camped there for three days. I searched among the people and priests, but found no Levites(B) there. 16 Then I summoned the leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam,(C) as well as the teachers Joiarib and Elnathan.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:14 Alt Hb tradition, some LXX mss read Zabud
  2. Ezra 8:15 Or canal

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