Those of Joab number one hundred and ten with leadership provided by Obadiah and Jehiel. The continued enumeration of family groups and their leaders reinforces the pattern of organized family-based participation in the return. The varying sizes of different family groups suggest different circumstances of diaspora settlement and different capacities to mobilize for return. This verse demonstrates that communal movements depend on the availability of leadership within each constituent group.

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