Nehemiah 12 · נחמיה

Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbavel the son of She᾽alti᾽el, and Yeshua: Seraya, Yirmeya, ῾Ezra,

Amarya, Mallukh, Ḥattush,

Shekhanya, Reĥum, Meremot,

῾Iddo, Ginnetoy, Aviyya,

Miyyamin, Ma῾adya, Bilga,

Shema῾ya and Yoyariv, Yeda῾ya,

Sallu, ῾Amoq, Ḥilqiyya, Yeda῾ya. These were the chiefs of the priests and their brethren in the days of Yeshua.

Moreover the Levites: Yeshua, Binnuy, Qadmi᾽el, Sherevya, Yehuda, and Mattanya, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.

Also Baqbuqya and ῾Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the duty watches.

And Yeshua begot Yoyaqim and Yoyaqim begot Elyashiv, and Elyashiv begot Yoyada,

and Yoyada begot Yonatan, and Yonatan begot Yaddua.

And in the days of Yoyaqim were priests, heads of fathers’ houses; of Seraya, Meraya, of Yirmeya, Ḥananya;

of ῾Ezra, Meshullam; of Amarya, Yehoĥanan;

of Melikhu, Yonatan; of Shevanya, Yosef;

of Ḥarim, ῾Adna; of Merayot, Ḥelqay;

of ῾Iddo, Zekharya; of Ginneton, Meshullam;

of Aviyya, Zikhri; of Minyamin, of Mo῾adya, Piltay;

of Bilga, Shammua; of Shema῾ya, Yehonatan;

and of Yoyariv, Mattenay; of Yeda῾ya, ῾Uzzi;

of Sallay, Qallay; of ῾Amoq, ῾Ever;

of Ḥilqiyya, Ḥashavya; of Yeda῾ya, Netan᾽el.

The Levites in the days of Elyashiv, Yoyada, and Yoĥanan, and Yaddua, were recorded chiefs of the fathers’ houses: also the priests, to the reign of Daryavesh the Parsian.

The sons of Levi, the chiefs of the fathers’ houses were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Yoĥanan the son of Elyashiv.

And the chiefs of the Levites: Ḥashavya, Sherevya, and Yeshua the son of Qadmi᾽el, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, section by section.

Mattanya, and Baqbuqya, ῾Ovadya, Meshullam, Talmon, ῾Aqquv, were gate-keepers, standing guard at the storehouse of the gates.

These were in the days of Yoyaqim the son of Yeshua, the son of Yożadaq, and in the days of Neĥemya the governor, and of ῾Ezra the priest, the scribe.

And at the dedication of the wall of Yerushalayim they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Yerushalayim, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgiving, and with singing, with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres.

And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the district round about Yerushalayim, and from the settlements of the Netofati;

also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geva and ῾Azmavet: for the singers had built themselves settlements round about Yerushalayim.

And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Then I brought up the princes of Yehuda upon the wall, and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand upon the wall towards the dung gate:

and after them went Hosha῾ya, and half of the princes of Yehuda,

And ῾Azarya, ῾Ezra, and Meshullam,

Yehuda, and Binyamin, and Shema῾ya, and Yirmeya,

and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets; namely, Zekharya the son of Yonatan, the son of Shema῾ya, the son of Mattanya, the son of Mikhaya, the son of Zakhur, the son of Asaf:

and his brethren, Shema῾ya, and ῾Azar᾽el, Milalay, Gilalay, Ma῾ay, Netan᾽el, and Yehuda, and Ḥanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and ῾Ezra the scribe before them.

And at the foundation gate, they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward.

And the other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, and half of the people upon the wall, above the tower of the furnaces to the broad wall;

and above the gate of Efrayim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Ḥanan᾽el, and the tower of the hundred, as far as the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

So the two companies of those who gave thanks in the house of God stood, and I and the half of the rulers with me:

and the priests; Elyaqim, Ma῾aseya, Minyamin, Mikhaya, Elyo῾enay, Zekharya, and Ḥananya, with trumpets;

and Ma῾aseya, and Shema῾ya, and El῾azar, and ῾Uzzi, and Yehoĥanan, and Malkiyya, and ῾Elam, and ῾Ezer. And the singers sang loud, Yizraĥya being their overseer.

And they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Yerushalayim was heard from afar off.

And on that day were some appointed over the chambers for the treasurers, for the heave offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions assigned by the Tora for the priests and Levites: for Yehuda rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.

And they kept the service of their God, and the service of the purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Shelomo his son.

For in the days of David and Asaf of old there were chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

And all Yisra᾽el in the days of Zerubbavel, and in the days of Neĥemya, gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as every day required: and they gave the holy portions to the Levites; and the Levites gave the holy portions to the children of Aharon.