18Since the gracious hand of our God was on us, they sent us a man named Sherebiah, along with eighteen of his sons and brothers. He was a very astute man and a descendant of Mahli, who was a descendant of Levi son of Israel.
Ezra 8 records the second wave of exiles returning from Babylon to Jerusalem under Ezra's leadership, some 80 years after the first return under Zerubbabel. The chapter opens with a detailed genealogy of those who made the journey, then shifts to Ezra's discovery that no Levites
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