40 of the sons of Bigvai. Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.
41 And I gathered them together to the river called Theras; and there we pitched our tents three days, and I surveyed them.
42 But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,
43 then sent I to Eleazar, and Ariel Iduel, and Maasmas,
44 and Elnathan, and Samaias, and Jarib Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding.
45 And I bade them that they should go to Iddo Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of Casiphia, the treasury:
46 and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, and to his brethren, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of our Lord.