Ezra 8:24
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New International Version (©2011)
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, namely, Sherebiah, Hashabiah and ten of their brothers,

New Living Translation (©2007)
I appointed twelve leaders of the priests--Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten other priests--

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and with them ten of their brothers;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I selected 12 of the leading priests, along with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and 10 of their brothers.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Next I selected twelve of the chief priests—Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them—

NET Bible (©2006)
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then I selected 12 leaders from the priests-Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and 10 of their relatives.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then I separated twelve of the leaders of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

American King James Version
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

American Standard Version
Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and Hasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,

Darby Bible Translation
And I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

English Revised Version
Then I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

World English Bible
Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

Young's Literal Translation
And I separate from the heads of the priests, twelve, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and with them of their brethren ten,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:24-30 Do we expect that God should, by his providence, keep that which belongs to us, let us, by his grace, keep that which belongs to him. Let God's honour and interest be our care; and then we may expect that our lives and comforts will be his.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 24. - Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, etc. Our translators, following the Vulgate, have omitted to render the preposition לְ, which occurs in the Hebrew text before the name of Sherebiah, and have thus represented Sherebiah and Hashabiah as priests, whereas they were not priests, but Levites, as appears from vers. 18, 19. The true sense is given by the LXX. - "Then I assigned twelve of the chief priests to Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren; i.e. "then I appointed twelve chief priests to act with twelve chief Levites, of whom Sherebiah and Hashabiah were two, in the matter of the royal offering." Ezra seems to have considered, that as the gift of Artaxerxes was an offering to the house of God, it ought to be handed over at once to the custody of the ministers of religion, and not remain in secular hands (compare ver. 28).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,.... That were in company with him; so that it seems there were more than the two mentioned, Ezra 8:2, very probably their families, or some of their brethren, were with them:

Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them; these men named were Levites, and not priests, Ezra 8:18 and therefore the copulative "and" must be supplied:

and Sherebiah, &c. or with the twelve priests, Sherebiah, &c. and ten Levites more with them; so that the number of priests and Levites were equal, and in all twenty four.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

24-32. Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests … and weighed unto them the silver, &c.—The custody of the contributions and of the sacred vessels was, during the journey, committed to twelve of the chief priests, who, with the assistance of ten of their brethren, were to watch closely over them by the way, and deliver them into the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. The treasures in silver and gold, according to the value of the Babylonian talent, amounted to about £515,000 sterling.

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The Priests Guard Offerings
24Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them, 25And weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered: 26I even weighed to their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents; …

Ezra 8:18 Because the gracious hand of our God was on us, they brought us Sherebiah, a capable man, from the descendants of Mahli son of Levi, the son of Israel, and Sherebiah's sons and brothers, 18 in all;
Ezra 8:19 and Hashabiah, together with Jeshaiah from the descendants of Merari, and his brothers and nephews, 20 in all.