The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
Parallel translations
- KJV The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
- BSB The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah), 74.
- NKJV The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
- NASB The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74.
- NLT These are the Levites who returned from exile: The families of Jeshua and Kadmiel (descendants of Hodaviah) 74
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Cross-references · 2
- Ezra 3:9Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
- Neh 7:43The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
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