Everyone made merry that day, and no wonder; it was a day to be remembered.
The order of each procession was as follows.

First and foremost went a band of musicians with their various instruments.

Then followed a small company of princes, the finest men in the nation, arrayed in all the brilliance of Eastern costume, and bringing up the rear were seven priests, bearing trumpets.

Each procession had a leader, Nehemiah conducted one, and Ezra the scribe the other.
Ezra's procession proceeded southward, and then eastward.

They passed the Dung Gate, whence was swept out the refuse of the city.