The continued listing of priestly families expands the comprehensive enumeration toward its conclusion, continuing to demonstrate the breadth of priestly family participation and the distribution of religious authority throughout the post-exilic priestly establishment. The detailed specification of each family and its authorized representative ensures that the organizational hierarchy could be clearly understood by subsequent readers. The accumulated enumeration demonstrates the principle that authentic restoration depended on the cooperation and commitment of numerous priestly families distributed throughout the religious hierarchy. The preservation of this extensive enumeration ensures that the complete personnel structure of the post-exilic priesthood is permanently documented.

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