The names are not personal, but designate families. The seal of the high-priestly house of Seraiah was probably appended either by Ezra or Eliashib…

These were the priests. —That is, the names of the priestly families. (Compare to Nehemiah 12:1-6.)

(See Gill on Nehemiah 10:1).

Conversion is separating from the course and custom of this world, devoting ourselves to the conduct directed by the word of God. When we bind ours…