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Jaalah
Ancestor of a family of Nethinim (temple servants) whose descendants are listed in Nehemiah 7 among those returning from Babylonian exile.
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Jaalah appears as a variant form or alternate spelling of in the lists of those who returned from exile. Nehemiah 7 records "the children of Jaalah" among the — temple servants — who came back to with . The Nethinim were an organized class of helpers assigned to the in service, tracing their origins to the time of and . Jaalah and Jaala likely refer to the same ancestral figure, with the two lists preserving slightly different textual traditions.
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