Ezra 2:40
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New International Version (©2011)
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (of the line of Hodaviah) 74

New Living Translation (©2007)
These are the Levites who returned from exile: The families of Jeshua and Kadmiel (descendants of Hodaviah) 74

English Standard Version (©2001)
The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The Levites included: Jeshua's and Kadmiel's descendants from Hodaviah's descendants74

International Standard Version (©2012)
The Descendants of Levi: Descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel; that is, descendants of Hodaviah: 74

NET Bible (©2006)
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah): 74.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
These Levites returned from exile: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel, that is, of Hodaviah 74

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

American King James Version
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

American Standard Version
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Levites: the children of Josue and of Cedmihel, the children of Odovia, seventy-four.

Darby Bible Translation
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

English Revised Version
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

Webster's Bible Translation
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

World English Bible
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

Young's Literal Translation
The Levites; sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:36-63 Those who undervalue their relation to the Lord in times of reproach, persecution, or distress, will have no benefit from it when it becomes honourable or profitable. Those who have no evidence that they are, by the new birth, spiritual priests unto God, through Jesus Christ, have no right to the comforts and privileges of Christians.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 40. - The Levites. The non-priestly Levites are divided into three classes: -

1. Ordinary Levites (ver. 40);

2. Choral Levites (ver. 41);

and Levites descended from those who had had the charge of the temple gates (ver. 42). Compare 1 Chronicles 24:20-31; 1 Chronicles 25, and 1 Chron 26:1-19. Of the first class, only two families seem to have returned - those of Jeshua and Kadmiel, both of which traced their descent to a certain Hodaviah, or Judah (Ezra 3:9).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Levites,.... Singers and porters, who are reckoned in this, and the two following verses, whose numbers were no more than three hundred and forty one; whereas, in the times of David, they were 38,000, 1 Chronicles 23:3.

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The Levites, Singers, Gatekeepers
40The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four. 41The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight. 42The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.

Ezra 2:39 ofHarim 1,017
Ezra 2:41 The musicians: the descendants of Asaph 128
Ezra 3:9 Joshua and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Hodaviah) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers--all Levites--joined together in supervising those working on the house of God.