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Enrollment of the Returned Exiles

Nehemiah 7:4-72

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Chapter 7
4 And the city is large and wide, but the people are few in its midst, and there are no houses built. 5 And God put it into my heart, so I gathered the nobles, the officials, and the people to enroll by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who went up first, and I found it written in it: 6 These sons of the province came up from the captivity of the exile, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled, and they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city. 7 The ones who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Rehum, Mordecai, Bilshan, the numbering one of the nation, Nahum, Bigvai, the numbering one, men of the people of Israel. 8 The sons of Bnei-pharaoh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. 9 The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. 10 The sons of Bnei Orah, six hundred fifty-two. 11 The sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 12 The sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. 13 The Beni Zattu: 845. 14 Sons of Zakkai: seven hundred and sixty. 15 The sons of Banoi, six hundred forty-eight. 16 The Beni: six hundred twenty-eight. 17 the sons of Ezga, two thousand three hundred twenty-two. 18 The sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven. 19 The sons of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-two. 20 Sons of Adin, six hundred fifty-five. 21 Sons of Ater (of Hezekiah), ninety-eight. 22 Ben-Hadad, three hundred twenty-eight. 23 Beni: three hundred twenty-four. 24 The men of Bani: a hundred and twelve. 25 Sons of Gibeon: ninety-five. 26 Men of Bethlehem and Netophah: 152. 27 Men of Anathoth: one hundred twenty-eight. 28 Men of the house of Azmaveth: forty-two. 29 Men of Kiriath-jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth: seven hundred forty-three. 30 Men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. 31 The men of Mikmas: a hundred and twenty-two. 32 Men of the house of God and of Ai: one hundred twenty-three. 33 Men of Nebo: fifty-two. 34 The sons of Elam, the second: one thousand two hundred fifty-four. 35 Beni Harim, three hundred and twenty. 36 The sons of Jericho: 345. 37 The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one. 38 The sons of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty. 39 The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. 40 The sons of Amar: a thousand two hundred and fifty-two. 41 The sons of Pashur: one thousand two hundred forty-seven. 42 The sons of Harim: a thousand and seven hundred ten. 43 The sons of the Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, the sons of Hodaviah, seventy-four. 44 The singers, the sons of Asaph: 148. 45 The gatekeepers: sons of Shallum, sons of Ater, sons of Talmon, sons of Akkub, sons of Hatita, sons of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight. 46 The Temple servants: the sons of Zacha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tebaoth. 47 the sons of Kiris, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon. 48 Sons of Laban, sons of Hagabah, sons of Shelomai. 49 sons of Hanan, sons of Gedaliah, sons of Gazera 50 the sons of Raiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda. 51 sons of Gazam, sons of Azza, sons of Pesach. 52 the sons of Basi, the sons of Me'unim, the sons of Naphis. 53 Sons of Bakbuk, sons of Hakupa, sons of Harhur. 54 Sons of Besai, sons of Mehida, sons of Harsha. 55 Sons of Barkos, sons of Sisera, sons of Tamah. 56 the sons of Netziach, the sons of Chatipha. 57 The sons of the servants of Solomon: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Perida. 58 the sons of Yeela, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Gedaliah. 59 The sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hatil, the sons of Pekhereth of the Zobayim, the sons of Amon. 60 All the Nethinim and the sons of Solomon's servants, three hundred ninety-two. 61 These are the ones who went up from Tel Melach, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Adon, and Immer, but they could not tell their fathers' house or their seed whether they were from Israel. 62 Sons of Deliah, sons of Tobiah, sons of Neqoda: six hundred forty-two. 63 And from the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of the Kots, the sons of Barzillai, who took a woman from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and called his name by theirs. 64 These sought their register among the Matichasites, but it was not found, and they were excluded from the priesthood. 65 And the Tirshatha said to them that they shall not eat from the holy things of the sanctuary until a priest stands for Urim and Thummim. 66 The whole assembly together: forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty. 67 besides their servants and their slave-girls, these seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and singing-men and singing-women, two hundred forty-five. 68 Four hundred thirty camels and six thousand seven hundred twenty donkeys. 69 Some of the heads of the fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand gold darics, fifty bowls, thirty tunics for priests, and five hundred. 70 Some of the heads of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas. 71 And what the remnant of the people gave: twenty thousand gold darics; two thousand silver minas; and sixty-seven priestly tunics. 72 And the priests and the Levites and the gatekeepers and the singers and from the people and the Temple servants (Nethinim) and all Israel settled in their cities. And the seventh month arrived, and the sons of Israel were in their cities.