These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.

But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found with this record written on it:

I gathered them at the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I searched among the people and priests, but found no Levites there.

The following were found to have married foreign women from the descendants of the priests:

from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.