The enumeration continues to add further priestly families to the comprehensive listing, bringing the portrait of post-exilic priestly organization into increasingly complete focus and demonstrating the extent of participation across the entire priestly establishment. The detailed naming of family representatives ensures that each priestly family's authorized leadership could be clearly identified and distinguished. The accumulated names throughout the listing demonstrate that the post-exilic priesthood encompassed numerous family groups of relatively comparable status and authority. The preservation of this detailed enumeration ensures that the complete organizational picture of the post-exilic priesthood is preserved for subsequent generations.

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