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1 Now these are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by

1 Now after these things, when Artaxerxes was king of Persia, Ezra, the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah,

1 Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where

1 Now the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, were preaching to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem

1 Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the

1 Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon,