Nehemia 7:39

7:39 The priests:

the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family ¹  of Jeshua), 973;

Nehemia 9:38

The People Pledge to be Faithful

9:38 (10:1) ²  “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant ³  in written form; ⁴  our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names ⁵  on the sealed document.”

Nehemia 11:20

11:20 And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.

Nehemia 12:7

12:7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the leaders ⁶  of the priests and their colleagues ⁷  in the days of Jeshua.

Nehemia 12:12

12:12 In the days of Joiakim, these were the priests who were leaders of the families: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

Nehemia 12:30

12:30 When the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

Nehemia 12:41

12:41 and the priests – Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with their trumpets –

Nehemia 13:4

13:4 But prior to this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms ⁸  of the temple of our God.

Nehemia 13:28

13:28 Now one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I banished him from my sight.

Nehemia 13:30

13:30 So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific ⁹  duties to the priests and the Levites.

[7:39]  ¹ tn Heb “to the house of.”

[9:38]  ² sn Beginning with 9:38, the verse numbers through 10:39 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:38 ET = 10:1 HT, 10:1 ET = 10:2 HT, 10:2 ET = 10:3 HT, etc., through 10:39 ET = 10:40 HT. Beginning with 11:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[9:38]  ³ tn Heb “we are cutting.”

[9:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “and writing.”

[9:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “our leaders, our Levites, and our priests on the sealed document.” The Hebrew text is elliptical here; the words “have affixed their names” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. Cf. v. 2.

[12:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “heads” (so also in v. 12).

[12:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “brothers” (also in vv. 8, 9, 24, 36).

[13:4]  ⁸ tc The translation reads the plural rather than the singular of the MT.

[13:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “a man in his work.”