² The first^(A) to live in their towns on their own property again were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.^(B)

³ These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem^(A) (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns^(B)—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants^(C)—