The chief of the people It would have been tedious to make all the people subscribe and seal the writing, therefore the chiefs and princes of each family signed and sealed it in the name of the rest; and they seem to have subscribed in the name of him from whom the family was derived.
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Nehemiah 10:14
14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,