1 En dit is die priesters en die Leviete wat saam met Serubb bel, die seun van Se ltiël, en J,sua opgetrek het: Ser ja, Jerem¡a, Esra,

2 Am rja, Mallug, Hattus,

3 Seg nja, Rehum, M,remot,

4 Iddo, G¡nnetoi, Ab¡a,

5 M¡jamin, Ma„dja, Bilga,

6 Sem ja en Jojarib, Jed ja,

7 Sallu, Amok, Hilk¡a, Jed ja; dit was die hoofde van die priesters en van hulle broers in die dae van J,sua.

8 En die Leviete was: J,sua, B¡nnu‹, K dmiël, Ser,bja, Juda, Matt nja wat met sy broers die leiding by die kore gehad het.

9 En Bakbukja en Unni, hulle broers, het by die dienste teenoor hulle gestaan.

10 En J,sua was die vader van Jojakim; en Jojakim was die vader van ljasib, en ljasib die vader van Jojada,

11 en Jojada die vader van Jonatan, en Jonatan die vader van Jaddua.

12 En in die dae van Jojakim was die priesterlike familiehoofde: van Ser ja, Mer ja; van Jerem¡a, Han nja;

13 van Esra, Mesullam; van Am rja, Johanan;

14 van Mallugi, Jonatan; van Seb nja, Josef;

15 van Harim, Adna; van M,rajot, H,lkai;

16 van Iddo, Sagar¡a; van G¡nneton, Mesullam;

17 van Ab¡a, Sigri; van M¡njamin, van Mo dja, P¡ltai;

18 van Bilga, S mmua; van Sem ja, Jonatan;

19 en van Jojarib, M ttenai; van Jed ja, Ussi;

20 van S llai, K llai; van Amok, Heber;

21 van Hilk¡a, Has bja; van Jed ja, Net neël.

22 Wat die Leviete betref -- in die dae van ljasib, Jojada en Johanan en Jaddua is die familiehoofde opgeskrywe, en die priesters tot aan die regering van Dar¡us, die Pers.

23 Die kinders van Levi, die familiehoofde, is opgeskrywe in die boek van die kronieke tot die dae van Johanan, die seun van ljasib.

24 En die hoofde van die Leviete was: Has bja, Ser,bja en J,sua, K dmiël, en hulle broers was teenoor hulle om te loof en te dank volgens die bevel van Dawid, die man van God, wag naas wag:

25 Matt nja en Bakbukja, Ob dja. Mesullam, Talmon, Akkub was poortwagters wat wag gehou het by die voorraadkamers van die poorte.

26 Hulle was in die dae van Jojakim, die seun van J,sua, die seun van Josadak, en in die dae van Nehem¡a, die goewerneur, en van die priester Esra, die skrifgeleerde.

27 En by die inwyding van die muur van Jerusalem is die Leviete uit al hulle woonplekke gesoek, om hulle na Jerusalem te bring ten einde die inwyding te hou met vreugde en dankliedere en met gesang, simbale, harpe en siters.

28 Toe het die seuns van die sangers byeengekom uit die streek rondom Jerusalem sowel as uit die dorpe van die Netofatiete,

29 en uit Bet-Gilgal en uit die buiteveld van Geba en Asm wet, want die sangers het vir hulle dorpe rondom Jerusalem gebou.

30 En die priesters en die Leviete het hulleself gereinig, en die volk en die poorte en die muur gereinig.

31 En ek het die owerstes van Juda bo-op die muur laat klim en twee groot kore opgestel en optogte, een na regs bo-op die muur na die Aspoort toe;

32 en agter hulle aan het geloop: Hos ja en die helfte van die owerstes van Juda,

33 en As rja, Esra en Mesullam,

34 Juda en Benjamin en Sem ja en Jerem¡a,

35 en van die seuns van die priesters met trompette, Sagar¡a, die seun van Jonatan, die seun van Sem ja, die seun van Matt nja, die seun van Mig ja, die seun van Sakkur, die seun van Asaf,

36 en sy broers Sem ja en As reël, M¡lalai, G¡lalai, Ma„i, Net neël en Juda, Han ni, met die musiekinstrumente van Dawid, die man van God; en Esra, die skrifgeleerde, voor hulle uit.

37 En by die Fonteinpoort het hulle, reg voor hulle uit, met die trappe van die Dawidstad opgegaan, waar die muur opgaan bo die huis van Dawid, tot by die Waterpoort teen die ooste.

38 En die tweede koor het in teenoorgestelde rigting getrek, en ek met die helfte van die volk agteraan, bo-op die muur by die Bakoond-toring langs tot by die Breë Muur;

39 verder by die Efraimspoort langs en die Ou Poort en die Vispoort en die toring Han neël en die toring Hamm,a tot by die Skaapspoort; en hulle het bly staan by die Gevangenispoort.

40 Toe het die twee kore in die huis van God gaan staan, en ek en die helfte van die leiers met my saam;

41 en die priesters ljakim, Ma„s,ja, M¡njamin, Mig ja, Eljoënai, Sagar¡a, Han nja met trompette,

42 en Ma„s,ja en Sem ja en Ele sar en Ussi en Johanan en Malk¡a en Elam en Eser. En die sangers het hulle laat hoor, en Jisr gja was die leier.

43 En op die dag het hulle groot offers gebring en was vrolik; want God het hulle groot vreugde verskaf, en ook die vroue en kinders was vrolik, sodat die vreugde van Jerusalem tot ver weg gehoor is.

44 En op die dag is manne aangestel oor die kamers vir die voorrade, die offergawes, die eerstelinge en die tiendes, om daarin die wetlike aandele volgens die landerye van die stede vir die priesters en die Leviete te versamel; want Juda was bly oor die priesters en die Leviete wat in die diens gestaan het.

45 En hulle het die ordening van hulle God en die reinigingsordening onderhou; ook die sangers en die poortwagters, volgens die bevel van Dawid en sy seun Salomo.

46 Want in die dae van Dawid en Asaf, van die voortyd af, lê die oorsprong van die sangers en leiers van die lofsang en die danksegging aan God.

47 En die hele Israel het in die dae van Serubb bel en in die dae van Nehem¡a die aandele van die sangers en van die poortwagters gegee, na die eis van elke dag; en hulle het die heilige gawes afgegee aan die Leviete, en die Leviete aan die seuns van A„ron.

1 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,

5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,

7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.

8 And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.

9 And Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were opposite them in their watches.

10 And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib was the father of Joiada,

11 And Joiada was the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.

12 And in the days of Joiakim there were priests, heads of families: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

14 Of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;

17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;

21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were listed as heads of families; and the priests, when Darius the Persian was king.

23 The sons of Levi, heads of families, were recorded in the book of the histories, even till the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.

24 And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to give blessing and praise as ordered by David, the man of God, watch against watch.

25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.

26 These were in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ruler and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

27 And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

28 And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites,

29 And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.

30 And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

31 Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines; one went to the right on the wall, in the direction of the doorway where the waste was put;

32 And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the rulers of Judah,

33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

34 Judah and Benjamin and Shemaiah and Jeremiah,

35 And certain of the priests' sons with wind instruments; Zechariah, the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,

36 And his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel and Judah, Hanani, with the music-instruments of David, the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was at their head;

37 And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.

38 And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;

39 And over the doorway of Ephraim and by the old door and the fish door and the tower of Hananel and the tower of Hammeah, as far as the sheep door: and at the doorway of the watchmen they came to a stop.

40 So the two bands of those who gave praise took up their positions in the house of God, and I and half of the chiefs with me:

41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with wind instruments;

42 And Maaseiah and Shemaiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehohanan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer. And the makers of melody made their voices loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

43 And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

44 And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

45 And they kept the watch of their God, and were responsible for making things clean, and so did the music-makers and the door-keepers, as it was ordered by David and Solomon his son.

46 For in the days of David and Asaph in the past, there was a master of the music, and songs of blessing and praise to God.

47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.