²⁴ In addition, we make it clear to you, that it will be against the law to put any tax or payment in goods or forced payment on any of the priests or Levites, the music-makers, door-keepers, Nethinim, or any servants of this house of God.

¹³ The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings.

⁷ And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

³⁶ The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

³⁷ The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two.

³⁸ The children of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred and forty-seven.

³⁹ The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

⁴⁰ The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

⁴¹ The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight

⁴² The children of the door-keepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-nine.

⁴³ The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

⁴⁴ The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

⁴⁵ The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

⁴⁶ The children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,

⁴⁷ The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

⁴⁸ The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

⁴⁹ The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

⁵⁰ The children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

⁵¹ The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

⁵² The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

⁵³ The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

⁵⁴ The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

⁵⁵ The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,

²⁰ Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem, ruling over all the country across the river, to whom they gave taxes and payments in goods and forced payments.