The list of the Exiles who returned

Ezra:1-70

 Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to their own town,  in company with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah)

The priests: the descents of Jedaiah.

The Levites:

The temple servants:

The musicians The descendants of Hobiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai. These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.

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.

Why?
The servants of the Temple are important, so everything and every one of the Temple servants has to be set up first and prepared for service. Even the identity has to be clarified to make sure they have this identity to serve the Lord.

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神仍然掌權在外邦人當中。

尼提寧：在聖殿做打雜、粗重工作。

沒有被擄的名單，卻有歸回的名單，這歸回代表得救，所以詳細記載每個家族。

以斯拉以嚴謹的態度在看聖殿及服事者的條件，唯一條件是亞倫的後代，以現代在看是屬靈的血統純正，即是否真正重生得救?成為聖潔，其次服事的動機是否正確?

服事神不僅是祭司的事也是全體百姓的事，因此捐獻，同心建造。

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How?

We also need to clean ourselves to serve the church, not only for our identity but also for our motivation to serve is correct.