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14 From Bigvai’s descendants: Uthai, Zabbud,[a] and 70 men with him.

Ezra Calls the Leaders to Fast

15 I gathered them together at the river that flows toward Ahava,[b] where we camped three days. Afterwards, I examined the people and the priests, but found no descendants of Levi there. 16 So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were senior leaders, as well as for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of discernment.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:14 So MT, but qere directs that the name be read Zaccur, perhaps due to confusion with the nearly identical Heb. word for men (Zecarim)
  2. Ezra 8:15 I.e. about 80 miles northwest of Babylon (cf. 2Kings 17:24)