⁷⁰ The priests, the Levites, the musicians, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.^(A)

The People in Jerusalem^(A)

² Now the first to resettle on their own property in their own towns^(B) were some Israelites, priests, Levites and temple servants.^(C)

Ezra Reads the Law

When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,^(C)

³ These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem (now some Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants and descendants of Solomon’s servants lived in the towns of Judah, each on their own property in the various towns,^(A)