The continuation with "Uzza, Kephira, Siaha, Udon, Gazbar, Bezai," maintains enumeration of temple servant families, establishing the remarkable diversity and scale of this service class essential for temple operations. The continued documentation of multiple servant family names across multiple verses emphasizes the labor-intensive nature of maintaining a major religious center, requiring organized labor distributed among numerous distinct family groups. The systematic enumeration of all servant families demonstrates administrative commitment to precise documentation of every component of the temple's operational structure, from highest religious functions down to the most humble menial labor. The inclusion of such extensive servant populations in the restoration project indicates that successful temple restoration required not merely rebuilding stone structures but reconstituting the entire social and administrative hierarchy that had maintained the pre-exile temple.

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